NIU closed Monday due to threats of violence

[whitesoxfan101]

http://www.niu.edu/alert/campus_alert.shtml

 

Everybody that goes here got emailed that a few times as it updated over the course of the evening. It's pretty unprecedented for a day of finals to be canceled here at all by what I'm told, and although the weather is horrible, the real reason they canceled the finals tomorrow is the Va. Tech-esque threats. This is going to be a nightmare for people that have finals tomorrow and Friday (luckily I don't have any Friday, although this means I have to wait an extra day to go home now), but better safe than dead.

[Rowand44]

Stay safe, man.

[whitesoxfan101]

Stay safe, man.

 

I live off campus, so other than the fact that I will be sure to avoid being on campus at any time tomorrow and will have to go home a day later, this has no effect on me. The problem is the Holmes Student Center is the area the crazy person threatened, and I have my doubts as to if they can REALLY keep that place empty on the Monday of finals week, as it's maybe the most commonly populated area on campus outside of the dorms and Huskie Stadium during football season. Hopefully this was just a hoax but the fact they closed the whole campus tomorrow has me concerned, even though the weather is certainly horrible and I'd guess that is a factor (although small).

Edited December 10, 2007 by whitesoxfan101

[bmags]

ugly. We still don't know if ours is going to get cancelled. The campus is covered in 2 inches of solid ice.

[whitesoxfan101]

NIU is really good with this kind of stuff as you see with the precaution taken here, but I just hope whoever made the threat is caught by Tuesday morning. I wouldn't exactly consider things around here safe until whoever did this is caught, as it's obviously a very real threat with school closed tomorrow.

Edited December 10, 2007 by whitesoxfan101

[IlliniKrush]

I live off campus, so other than the fact that I will be sure to avoid being on campus at any time tomorrow and will have to go home a day later, this has no effect on me. The problem is the Holmes Student Center is the area the crazy person threatened, and I have my doubts as to if they can REALLY keep that place empty on the Monday of finals week, as it's maybe the most commonly populated area on campus outside of the dorms and Huskie Stadium during football season. Hopefully this was just a hoax but the fact they closed the whole campus tomorrow has me concerned, even though the weather is certainly horrible and I'd guess that is a factor (although small).

If this person/people are serious I wouldn't think they'd write down a date and a place and then actually go to that place on that day.

 

Anyways, stay safe and hopefully nothing whatsoever comes of this.

[Texsox]

If this person/people are serious I wouldn't think they'd write down a date and a place and then actually go to that place on that day.

 

Anyways, stay safe and hopefully nothing whatsoever comes of this.

Amazing as it seems, some do. Sometimes it is a friend figures out the scheme and alerts police. Other times they are mentally sick and for whatever reason call it in. Small percentage for certain, but it does happen.

 

What you have to be careful of, for example, in bomb threats, in areas with high violence terrorists have called in a bomb threat to a building, waited for the building to empty, then bombed the people outside.