article_snippet.sent: (CNN)A Duke student has admitted to hanging a noose made of rope from a tree near a student union, university officials said Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: Duke student was identified during an investigation by campus police and the office of student affairs and admitted to placing the noose on the tree early Wednesday, Duke University said.
article_snippet.sent: We stand together,"  after pictures of the noose were passed around on social media.
article_snippet.sent: At a forum held on the steps of Duke Chapel, close to where the noose was discovered at 2 a.m., hundreds of people gathered.
article_snippet.sent: In February, a noose was hung around the neck of a statue of a famous civil rights figure at the University of Oklahoma.
highlights_snippet.sent: School officials identified student during investigation and the person admitted to hanging the noose, Duke says .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The noose, made of rope, was discovered on campus about 2 a.m. 