Threatening note closes Texas university

[oberliner]

Source: Yahoo! News

AUSTIN, Texas - Authorities evacuated buildings Tuesday at St. Edward's University after a threatening note was found, a school official said.

The bomb threat came a day after a Virginia Tech student killed at least 30 people locked inside a classroom building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

Police officers had secured the perimeter of the campus and were searching the buildings, university spokeswoman Mischelle Amador.

She declined to say where the note was found and said its contents were "nonspecific."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070417/ap_on_re_us/university_bomb_threat;_ylt=Akmgns3q5brNCpQCLWB2AcGs0NUE

[valerief]

1. Wow, it's like the nineties all over again, when schools and shootings

were a weekly occurrence.

[tomhayes]

13. Can you point on whcih "every week"s there were?

More like one every 6 months to a year in my memory.

[valerief]

14. Ha! You're funny. nt

[maddezmom]

2. now come the copycats

:(

[havocmom]

3. Open season on institutions of learning?

The new Dark Ages... on the march.

[angstlessk]

4. Didn't study for that test? Drop a bomb scare...

This is horrid...now every school will be sujected to all sort of pranks and threats. very sad!

[truthisfreedom]

5. Until someone slips up and leaves a fingerprint or bit of DNA, and then goes to prison.

[LiberalFighter]

7. They need to publicize that anyone threatening even though false

would be expelled and it would be in their school record.

[Xenotime]

9. Exactly. That will keep them from returning to campus with a gun...

Good thinking!

[LiberalFighter]

10. If it works fine

In most cases I would consider that the purpose was to avoid a test because they weren't ready. And it was a false alarm.

[Mojorabbit]

11. When I was in Jr high

and high school in the late 60's and early 70's bomb scares were frequent. We were forever being evacuated from classrooms. The more things change the more they stay the same it seems.

[kath]

15. yep - sounds like a good way to delay finals week.

[whistle]

6. No copy cat here wasn't University of Texas Austin the site of a mass shooting in 1966

....by Charles Whitman who killed 13 people from the University Tower? If it is the same institution they have a right to take security measures.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/whitman/index_1.html

[Jane Austin]

8. St. Ed's is a private Catholic University here in Austin.

It has an absolutely wonderful writing program.

No one graduates without passing a rigorous writing program, and extensive coaching is provided to students to help them achieve success in that program.

Charles Whitman shot from the Main Building tower at the University of Texas.

The two colleges are on opposite sides of the river with downtown Austin in between.

[whistle]

12. Ah, not familiar with that area at all, thank you for clearing that up