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1 THE DAILYServing theT University EXANof Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Monday, September 17, 2012 UT Fashion Club Check out the INSIDE gives seasonal photos from the clothing advice. Ole Miss game. LIFE&ARTS MULTIMEDIA 4 PAGE 10 PAGE 8 opinion The administration needs to persuade students that it is ready to handle crises. A state of emergency 5 news Friday’s bomb hoax More than 400 8:35 a.m. quilts on display this Unidentiﬁ ed man weekend were all phones in bomb threat dedicated to Texas wildflowers. 9:50 a.m. Building evacuations 10 begin life&arts 9:53 a.m. “End of Watch” offers Students receive text cop thriller with messages telling them disappointing end. to leave buildings 10:05 a.m. 90 minutes is up; ONLINE detonations were set to UT bomb threat begin at this time press conference if bombs were real bit.ly/dt_bombpress Press conference given where were by University officials you at 10 a.m.? and Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell in light of the dsegs: “At 10 I was just bomb threat on Friday, out of ETC, but everybody Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff just stood around in front which resulted in campus- Computer sciences freshman Tyler Corley (left) and biology sophomore Sayde Pihota (right) read updates on the bomb threat from wide evacuation and the of the building. If there was the UTPD text messaging system Friday morning. cancellation a real bomb we’d all have of classes. been blown up.” By Bobby Blanchard & David Maly UT emergency bomb alisonthemonster: “I was Fake threats threat evacuation right by Kinsolving, and the A er the weekend, concern bit.ly/dt_bomb alarms were going off and about the timeliness and lan- across U.S. Friday morning at no one was responding. It guage of the University’s re- approximately 8:35 a.m., was like when they test the sponse to Friday’s hoax bomb threat remains while FBI in- UT received a phone call alarms every month. It was catch FBI’s vestigations are still ongoing. super eerie, and the rain from a man claiming to Erik Vasys, San Antonio have placed bombs all over just added to it.” FBI spokesperson and agent, attention the campus. At 9:50 a.m., said the FBI takes all threats the University sent out an stacky: “I was asleep, safe seriously and the investigation By Mary Ellen Knewtson emergency alert urging all and far away from campus. into this incident is ongoing. students, faculty and staff That said, I never got an He would not elaborate on the Pu Ying Huang | Daily Texan Staff e FBI is searching for a to evacuate the campus. email or text from school. details of the investigation. UT police chief Robert Dahlstrom, UT-Austin President William connection between the false Same thing with the e University ordered a Powers Jr. and Austin mayor Lee Leffingwell speak at a press bomb threats at UT, North gunman two years ago.” campus-wide building evacu- conference held in the AT&T Center at noon Friday. Dakota State University and ation at 9:50 a.m. Friday in Hiram College in Ohio that TODAY amperture: “I was at the response to a bomb threat that onating 90 minutes a er his up to 10 years in prison and a caused the campuses to be was called in 75 minutes ear- phone call, making the deto- $10,000 ne, as well as possi- FAC computer store... evacuated Friday. lier at 8:35 a.m. Many students nation time 10:05 a.m. ble civil liabilities. If a terrorist Religion and What I was most amazed “One of the many things said they were concerned the In this instance, the crimi- threat meets certain speci ca- we’re looking into is the pos- Environmentalism by was the sheer volume of University waited too long to nal consequence under state tions, such as disrupting pub- sible connection to the other Journalism professor ﬂ at dismissal, ‘Yeah, that’s Dr. Robert Jensen evacuate the buildings. e law for making a terrorist lic transportation, putting the hoax calls,” said Erik Vasys, presents “Religion and probably a drill, don’t worry caller claimed the bombs “all threat is a third degree felony, a spokesperson for the San Environmentalism: Finding about it.’ Until people over” campus would start det- with a maximum penalty of BOMB continues on page 2 Antonio division investigat- Common Grounds” from started getting texts.” ing the UT bomb threat. 6-7:30 p.m. in UTC 3.102. Responses compiled from reddit.com e bomb threat came at the end of a week when two other Muslims for Life Concerns raised over racial bias false alarm situations near UT 11:40 a.m. had already disrupted cam- blood drive UT announces that Friday By Alexa Ura liated with al-Qaida. A calling from a phone booth pus. Eight campus buildings’ The Ahmadiyya Muslim classes are cancelled and source close to the situation, in Austin, but the number re alarms were pulled Mon- Student Organization tells students they can who asked not to be named didn’t have a 512 area code,” holds a blood drive as part day, forcing evacuations. A of a national campaign return to buildings at noon UT community members because of the con dential the source said. squad of University and Aus- called Muslims for have raised concerns of ra- information provided, said e caller would not say tin police o cers closed o an Life from 12-5 p.m. on 12:00 p.m. cial bias in the UT Police UTPD asked UT employ- what building the bombs area around the corner of 24th Speedway across from Department’s description ees what the caller sounded were in, the source said. e and Guadalupe streets urs- Press conference held and the East Mall. of the man behind a false like and if he had an accent. caller remained on the phone day while they investigated a campus buildings reopen bomb threat to the UT cam- Employees told UTPD the for more than 10 minutes suspicious cooler le on the pus, and UTPD is standing caller had a “light Middle while UT employees noti ed sidewalk. e area was closed 5:00 p.m. behind its decision to re- Eastern accent.” UTPD of the call. Police ar- for an hour until police were Today University activities lease the information. e call came through the rived shortly a er the caller able to determine the cooler resume During the response to University’s general phone hung up, the source said. was not dangerous. the threat, which included line at 8:35 a.m., according A UTPD spokesperson said UTPD Police Chief Robert in history a campus-wide evacuation, to the source. e caller told they received notice of the call Dahlstrom said his depart- Saturday UT Police Department of- an employee he was not a at 8:43 a.m. e University ment is communicating with In 1787 UT announced Friday’s cers released a statement UT student, and bombs on issued its rst emergency no- the other two colleges that Known as registration-related saying the caller was a man campus were going to go o ti cation at 9:53 a.m. via text received bomb threats Friday Constitution Day, deadlines would be with a Middle Eastern ac- in one to two hours. The United States pushed to Monday. cent who said he was af- “ e caller said he was BIAS continues on page 2 HOAX continues on page 2 Constitution was signed on this day. UNIVERSITY Students take plea deal, University remains silent By David Maly the working conditions of fac- Students Quote to note tory workers internationally. Against UT joined the consortium in Sweatshops Seventeen members of the July. e 17 members had to members Adrian “Whenever you Make UT Sweatshop-Free choose Friday between two Orozco, Lucian get 66 points on a Coalition went before a Travis plea options the County At- Villasenor, ‘ County judge Friday for crimi- torney o ered this summer. Christina team,‘ you know nal trespass, and each member Virginia Raymond, attorney Noriega and took a plea deal to have the for 16 of the charged students, Yajaira Fraga the offense was charges reduced and eventually said 15 chose plea option one, await trial at very prepared removed from their record. which immediately dismissed the Blackwell- e members were charged the charges and forced the stu- Thurman for this week.” in April a er holding a sit- dents to sign an admission of Criminal Justice in in UT President William guilt to a class B misdemeanor Center Friday morning. — Alex Okafor, Powers Jr.’s o ce with the goal criminal trespass charge. ose Defensive end of convincing UT to join the students will now have to Nathan Worker Rights Consortium, Goldsmith SPORTS PAGE 6 an organization that monitors PLEA continues on page 2 Daily Texan Staff 2 2 News Monday, September 17, 2012 president, said about 20,000 Lt. Joel Vettel of THE DAILY TEXAN people evacuated North Da- the Fargo Police Volume 113, Issue 24 HOAX kota State’s Fargo campus Department continues from page 1 Friday, according to the As- talks to the media near the sociated Press. Hiram Col- North Dakota CONTACT US through the Joint Terrorism lege has 1,300 students. Au- State University Task Force, an FBI partner- thorities evacuated, searched campus in Fargo, ship with other law enforce- and declared all three schools N.D., following Main Telephone: ment agencies focused on safe Friday.

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