Nov 7, 2021 - Politics & Policy

Three Ivy League schools receive bomb threats, officials say

Ivana Saric

Columbia University. Photo: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Officials at Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities ordered partial campus evacuations after receiving bomb threats on Sunday.

Driving the news: Cornell University evacuated four campus buildings following the threat. A campus alert at 5:30pm ET noted that the investigation and building sweeps were ongoing.

Columbia University issued a campus-wide emergency alert after receiving threats, though the school later said they were deemed "not credible" by the New York Police Department.
Several buildings on the Brown University campus were also evacuated Sunday due to a bomb threat, but were cleared for re-occupancy shortly before 6pm ET, the student newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald, reported.

What's more: The threats on Sunday follow a similar incident on Friday at Yale, where several buildings were evacuated also due to a bomb threat, per the Yale Daily News.

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