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Police Urge Vigilance After 3 Ivy League Schools Are Hit with Bomb Threats on the Same Day

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Multiple Ivy League colleges were threatened Sunday that there were bombs on their campuses.

Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities all alerted students and evacuated some campus buildings in the aftermath of threats, according to NBC News.

All three colleges eventually ruled that their buildings were safe after several hours of searching for a bomb.

The threats followed a similar one against Yale two days earlier, which also prompted the evacuation of several nearby buildings in New Haven, Connecticut.

The New York City Police Department called the threat at Columbia “a swatting incident.”

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Andy Costello, a former NYPD deputy inspector of police, said swatting can mean a fake threat to distract police from the actual scene of a crime, according to WCBS-TV.

“But it’s morphed into a term where people make fake bomb threats simultaneously at different locations, just to attract and move police resources to them,” Costello said.

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Columbia students Cole Fitzgibbons and Christian Gomes were alarmed when their college sent out a warning.

“At that point, we just took our stuff and we just dipped,” Fitzgibbons said, according to WCBS.

Gomes said it was odd that multiple colleges had the same experience.

“And it happened at Yale a couple days ago. I don’t know if it’s like targeting the Ivys,” Gomes said.

Cornell officials said the threat came via anonymous phone call, according to The Cornell Daily Sun.

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Joel Malina, vice president for university relations at Cornell, said the caller threatened an attack with automatic weapons and explosives.

In all cases, the threats targeted specific buildings.

Similar threats also took place last week at three schools in Ohio: Miami University, Ohio University’s Athens campus and Cleveland State’s Marshall College of Law.

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Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com.
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