Penn State administrators asked the police and District Attorney Ray Gricar to consider dropping the trespassing charges and both areas of law enforcement agreed, the university said in a press release yesterday.

Gricar could not be reached for comment yesterday.

It was unclear last night whether the students will face sanctions from the Office of Judicial Affairs, said Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon.

At a rally and protest yesterday, students circulated a petition calling for amnesty to the students who were arrested Saturday.

Saturday's Beaver Stadium protest was in response to a death threat directed at a Penn State Black Caucus leader.

The letter not only threatened the student's life, but the writer also claimed to have killed a black man. The letter said the man's body would be found on Mount Nittany and that no one had even noticed the man's disappearance.

Eight police searched the mountain Friday, then 26 officers searched again with the help of a police helicopter. They found nothing suspicious, and determined the letter's claim to be a hoax.

A check by the university revealed no students are missing.

Handwriting beneath the letter also said graduation day would be linked with bombs at Penn State.