ITHACA, N.Y. — Two days after Yale University evacuated student dormitories due to a bomb threat, three more Ivy League institutions faced similar threats. Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Columbia University in Manhattan, and Brown University in Providence, R.I. all received bomb threats.
Campus police at Cornell University ordered four buildings evacuated Sunday after a call about bombs being placed there.
The Ivy League university posted on its website that police had received a call that bombs were put in the law school building as well as Goldwin Smith Hall, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall.
Students and visitors were being urged to avoid those four buildings and the Ithaca school’s central campus. Police and SWAT units were responding.
Columbia University also evacuated buildings due to threats on Sunday, threats which they later determined to be unfounded. Brown University also gave an all-clear after evacuating several buildings, according the college's student newspaper.
On Friday, Yale, another Ivy League university, also received bomb threats targeting several buildings. Students and staff were evacuated and several streets in downtown New Haven were shut down for several hours, before it was determined there was no threat. That investigation is ongoing.
The Ivy League is a group of long-established colleges and universities in the eastern US having high academic and social prestige. It includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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