Threats drive feminist activist from campus.(Whitney Williams)

Whitney Williams is in hiding and has withdrawn from classes at the University of New Hampshire, where her feminist actions brought scorn and physical threats.

Williams was the spokesperson for the campus Feminist Action League (FAL), a group of about eight women who are more demonstrative about their beliefs than other groups on campus. Williams also wrote about 50 columns for the campus' newspaper, mostly on gender equity and feminism.

"Women do you hear me?" she wrote in a column. "I write for you. I wrote for all the times you've been stepped on, spit on, beaten up, assaulted, coerced, raped. I write for women who are no longer here."

FAL members disrupted the school's presidential address, demanding information on what the school was doing about rapes on campus. When fraternity members attended the Take Back the Night rally last spring, FAL stood behind them with signs that said, "Feminists against frats. We don't negotiate with terrorists."

Things got ugly for Williams in September when she received a death threat by email. More recently, a campus publication printed a quote from a male student who remarked that ...