STOP SCARING YOUR OWNSELF
University Application Incites Bomb Scare Published: July 22, 2007
CHARLESTON, Ill., July 21 (AP) — Emergency crews evacuated a building at Eastern Illinois University on Friday morning after a campus postal carrier discovered a disheveled package heading for the college’s admissions office.
“There was no return address, it was poorly written, poorly addressed to the university, there were misspellings,” said Vicki Woodard, a university spokeswoman. “There was some tape over it. Just the overall appearance was rather strange.”
The stuffed and stained envelope was strange enough that police officers alerted the bomb squad.
Explosives investigators blocked off a street and X-rayed the package before learning that it contained nothing more than an application to the 12,500-student university.
Ms. Woodard said the application had come from northern Illinois, but she would not comment on whether the bomb scare would affect the prospective student’s chance of admission.
“I’m sure it’ll be processed like any other application at this point,” Ms. Woodard said.
