NORTHFIELD, Minn. – A racist typewritten note that allegedly targeted a black student at St. Olaf College and sparked campus wide protests that canceled classes was a hoax, though officials won’t identify who wrote it.

A racist note allegedly left on the windshield of black senior Samantha Wells on April 29 was “fabricated” as part of a “strategy to draw attention to concerns about campus climate” and “was not a genuine threat,” St. Olaf President David R. Anderson wrote in a message to students Wednesday.

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Wells posted images of the note on and was a featured speaker at student rallies this month that demanded St. Olaf officials take action to address allegations of racist activities on campus, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

Students held a protest on April 29 and administrators canceled classes two days later to address students’ demands to combat the alleged institutional racism. Meanwhile, Northfield police launched an investigation into the situation, but could not actually review the note because Wells “took (it) outside and had a ‘ceremonial’ burning to destroy it,” according to the police report.

Wells alleged she burned the note “because she didn’t want to look at it or have it anywhere near her,” the report said.

According to Wells, the note read:

“I am so glad that you are leaving soon. One less n***er that this school has to deal with. You have spoken up too much. You will change nothing. Shut up or I will shut you up.”

“It’s been something that’s been going on all year,” Wells said during demonstrations that shut down the school’s cafeteria building, according to the Northfield News. “We’ve done so much digging and this stuff has happened for decades. There’s one thing that happens and it stops and then it happens again and then it kind of stops. I think the big message is we shouldn’t let this happen again. The administration needs to do something that stops it indefinitely.”

School officials eventually conceded to the students’ demands and agreed to address the alleged racism, which also allegedly included several other racist notes left for black students in recent months.

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“The racist message a student received this weekend follows several other racist acts on campus throughout the year, including written racial epithets and a message targeted at another student,” spokeswoman Kari VanDerVeen wrote in a prepared statement several days after the April 29 incident. “In addition to the sharp rise in incidents, it is also deeply troubling that the perpetrators have begun directing messages to specific members of our community.

“These acts are despicable. They violate every value we hold as a community, and they have absolutely no place at St. Olaf.”

The university currently has 63 black students and 2,214 white students, according to The Washington Post.

School officials told the Tribune “federal privacy laws prohibit the college from disclosing the identity of the author of that note and disclosing the actions taken by the college now that we know the author’s identity.”

The Tribune attempted unsuccessfully to contact Wells, but she posted a cryptic message to Facebook that neither denies nor acknowledges her involvement in the hoax.

“So, it looks like something made its way back to me in the investigation,” she wrote. “I will be saying it was a hoax. I don’t care. There is nothing more that I can do.”

The graduating senior also emailed the lead investigator in the case.

“I have decided that I am not going to be filing a report,” she wrote.

Wells told investigators she doesn’t want to file a report because she’s leaving for Europe after graduation and “would rather not spend the end of my college career and my last month and a half in the U.S. worrying about an investigation.”

Several students who spoke with the Tribune didn’t seem to mind that the alleged hate crime turned out to be a hoax aimed at goading them into action.

“It’s started something good,” said Daniel Katuka, a black senior who said he hasn’t experienced the supposedly racist climate on campus.

“It shows that if there’s a problem, it’s not a big problem,” he said. “It shows that this is a campus that stands together.”