Sep 17, 2012

TIME - Safety First: How Should Colleges Respond to Bomb Threats? | U.S. | TIME.com

Safety First: How Should Colleges Respond to Bomb Threats? | U.S. | TIME.com

The bomb threats at the University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University in Fargo on Friday that canceled classes and forced campus evacuations turned out to be nothing more than hoaxes. By early afternoon, no explosive devices were found and both schools had reopened their campuses. But whether the bomb threats were legitimate — the UT caller claimed to be linked to al-Qaeda — didn’t matter. In a post–Virginia Tech world, colleges have learned the hard way that safe is always better than sorry.

Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/09/15/put-to-the-test-colleges-grapple-with-bomb-threats/#ixzz26ksXcSK2

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