When Threats Are Like Spam

By Andy Guess from Inside Higher Ed: Are bomb threats a new fall rite of passage at colleges and universities?

As classes began this week at many universities, some employees turned on their computers to find bomb threats sitting in their inboxes.

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At least seven universities had received threats between last Friday and Tuesday, including:

• Carnegie Mellon University;
• Cornell University, where a threat e-mailed to a faculty member at the Johnson Graduate School of Management caused an evacuation;
• the University of Illinois at Chicago;
• Another university in the Southeast (unidentified, but not Duke or Emory) where the admissions office was fully evacuated.