SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News)— Three Ivy League Schools were all faced with bomb threats just a few days ago. Cornell student Sabrina Palacios was inside the Law Building, one of the buildings that were threatened. She recalled when her day turned from normalcy to the unimaginable.
“We were kind of joking around, hanging out, still talking when our one friend said, ‘Guys we have to go, we have to leave,’ and we were like ‘What are you talking about?'” Palacios said.
The first-year law student checked her phone and read two text messages, which alerted students to evacuate academic buildings on campus, one being the building she was in.
“We were definitely on edge. We packed up, and then we went to our cars and left campus,” Palacios said. That is when the panic settled in for Cornell students.
Palacios said that people were trying to figure out why those alerts could have been sent out.
“They definitely could have been more transparent, even if they were so broad as to say there was a threat-to-life situation,” Palacios said.
However, she does commend the school and Campus Police for their quick response to the situation. She also said that her professors were understanding of the situation and are working to keep the stress levels to a minimum.
NCC News has reached out to Cornell’s Campus Police to ask if it would do anything differently if this were to happen again, but there has been no response so far. The campus is deemed safe to be on after a sweep of Ithaca, and classes are going on.
