Ivy League Schools Report Bomb Threats

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Ivy League Schools Report Bomb Threats

Cornell, Columbia, Brown Universities said they received bomb threats Sunday

By Corinne Ramey

Nov. 7, 2021



Ivy League schools Cornell, Columbia, and Brown Universities said they received bomb threats Sunday that prompted evacuations of some facilities.

There weren’t any reports of explosions or damage as of Sunday afternoon.

On Sunday at about 2:30 p.m., Columbia University issued a campuswide emergency alert after receiving bomb threats involving several of its buildings, a spokeswoman said. She said the university immediately evacuated those buildings.

The New York Police Department investigated and determined the threats weren’t credible, she said.

Cornell University said on Twitter on Sunday afternoon that it had received a call that bombs were being placed in its law school and three other facilities. “Ithaca Campus Law enforcement is on site and investigating campus bomb threat,” the school said in a tweet. “Security perimeter is in place.”

The university said Sunday evening that no credible threats were found.

A Brown University spokesman said that after receiving a bomb threat by phone, the university’s public safety department evacuated several buildings near the university’s College Green.

After searches by the university and local police, the authorities found no evidence of a credible threat. “Buildings that had been evacuated are now reopened, and university operations have resumed as normal,” the spokesman said.

Sunday’s threats follow similar incidents at other universities in recent days. On Friday, local authorities investigated a bomb threat at Yale University. On Saturday, two Ohio schools—Miami University and Ohio University—said they had investigated campus bomb threats as well.

The authorities didn’t deem any of the threats credible.

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Ivy League schools get unfounded bomb threats, bringing campus life to standstill: 'There was a lot of chaos'

One student told Fox News the scene was 'chaotic'

By Adam Sabes | Fox News

November 7, 2021


Students at Ivy League schools witnessed a "chaotic" scene after each campus locked down following a string of unfounded bomb threats.

Yale, Cornell, Columbia and Brown all reported bomb threats over the past three days and have ordered evacuations from multiple buildings.



Cornell, Columbia and Brown received bomb threats Sunday afternoon.

Students at the schools described a panicked scene when the universities alerted them.

Jesse Kay, a student at Cornell, told Fox News he was at a Starbucks near campus when he got an alert about a bomb threat.

"There was a bunch of confusion for a solid hour or so on whether there was an active shooter or a bomb threat. So there was a lot of chaos," Kay said. "I was grabbing Starbucks, and they said they were locking it down."

Kay said many people were running away from campus.

"After [Starbucks] said they were locking the doors up, a fair amount of people headed out back home, and then outside there was a ton of people running into Collegetown from campus," he said.

Another Cornell student said he was studying in one of the buildings that was evacuated when he got the alert and left.



Columbia University tweeted that an investigation by the New York Police Department determined that the bomb threats were not credible.

One Twitter account was reportedly suspended after making multiple threats to Columbia University. Fox News has reached out to Twitter.

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