Four buildings on Harvard University's campus near Boston were evacuated
Monday after the school's police department received an unconfirmed
report that explosives may have been placed inside.
Final exams have begun at the Ivy League school in Cambridge, and many
of the students who had to leave went to Annenberg Hall, another campus
building, according to the school's paper, The Harvard Crimson. Three of
the evacuated buildings border Harvard Yard and the other is the
school's science center.
Both school and city police were investigating and the university will
provide more information soon, it said in alerts on its emergency page
and its Twitter account.
"Out of an abundance of caution, the buildings have been evacuated while
the report is investigated," the school said in a statement. "Harvard's
focus is on the safety of our students, faculty and staff."
Sophomore Santiago Pardo said by phone that he and his roommate were
keeping close tabs on the situation from their dorm, Adams House, which
is not near Harvard Yard.
"We feel safe," he said. "We're not scared."
Last month, another Ivy League school, Yale University in Connecticut,
was locked down for nearly six hours while authorities investigated a
phone call saying an armed man was heading to shoot it up, a warning
they later said was likely a hoax.
And in February, someone called in a hoax about a gunman on the campus
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, another elite school about
two miles from Harvard. The university said the gunman was a staff
member looking for revenge after the suicide of an Internet activist
accused of illegally using MIT computers.
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