Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

An update on our previous USF bomb scare story…

Cooper Hall remains closed as of noon today, with all Thursday classes rescheduled to different campus locations.

Thanks to those of you who messaged me about this having been on the news last night — I teach pretty early in the morning and I miss the evening news sometimes.

A message went out to most USF students around 9pm last evening informing them of the situation. The USF Oracle is reporting the bomb threat was found in the fourth-floor men’s bathroom, not the bomb itself.

Police say Cooper may be open as early as this afternoon. Speculation is that a student was trying to get out of taking their final today, but that seems awfully ludicrous (if obvious).

The warning was sent via the new “MoBull” emergency warning system that text messages students whom have registered for the service. An earlier incident in which police elected not to use MoBull may have prompted this decision.

This isn’t the first time crisis has hit Cooper Hall. A squirrel attack in 2003 left the building without power for four hours (in a building that has very few windows).

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