Montclair State University officials are investigating a series of hateful anti-gay messages found in the student center in recent weeks.
All of the messages said that gay people would "die" in the coming days.
"Fear is not one of our values," Karen Pennington, vice president of Student Development and Campus Life, told NBC New York. "Hate is not one of our values. That's the message we want people to take away. This isn't who we are."
Anti-gay graffiti was discovered outside the school's LGBT center recently, and a threatening message was also slipped under the center's door, officials said. Another hateful message was scrawled on a nearby wall.
Students were alerted to the incidents through a campus-wide email as well as social media.
Hundreds attended a rally against the threats Wednesday afternoon. Others signed a poster that now hangs outside the LGBT center.
About 18,000 students attend the school.
University police have launched a full investigation and ask anyone with information to come forward.
The college has also alerted its Bias Response Task Force.
