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MICHAEL A. BOOTH
FREELANCE REPORTER
Hundreds of students and staff
poured from Lane Community Col
lege's main campus Tuesday after an un
known caller told college officials three
bombs had been placed on the campus.
Students left buildings and went
out into the late-morning sun after
public safety officials called for an
evacuation at 10:40 a.m., 30 minutes
after the threat was received.
Public safety officers conducted a
systematic search of the entire cam
pus, but found no explosive devices.
Tuesday's bomb threat was the first
at LCC in four or five years, and the
previous threat failed to prompt an
evacuation, said Director of Health
and Safety Sandra Ing-Wiese.
Within 20 minutes of the evacuation
order, the campus buildings were de
void of nearly everyone, except neces
sary staff. Departing traffic backed up
for more than half an hour from the In
terstate 5 on-ramp one-quarter mile
away and stretched all the way around
the road on the campus perimeter.
LCC President Mary Spilde held a
press conference at the main parking
lot outside the administration build
ing not long after the evacuation.
Spilde said executives decided to
close the campus for the entire day so
public safety officers would have time
to search all buildings.
Initially, officials would not say who
spoke with the caller or what the caller
said. But, public radio station KLCC
later reported the caller said, "You have
one hour to find three bombs." Ing
Wiese then confirmed the report and
said the caller sounded like a male
Ing-Wiese said a campus operator
received the threatening call on the
general campus phone line that is ad
vertised to the public.
Campus staff members were noti
fied of the evacuation after the admin
istration activated their "phone tree"
call list. They relied on contacted staff
to spread the word. Public safety offi
cers followed up by checking each
building to ensure people had been
notified and were evacuating.
LCC student Tobie Kerstetter was work
ing at the snack bar in the Center Building
when a bookstore employee told her
the campus was being evacuated.
"No one said why we were evacuat
ing, just that we had to lock up and
leave the campus," Kerstetter said. "I
didn't hear that it was a bomb threat
until I was on the way to pick up my
daughter at the child care center."
Spilde said there was no way of know
ing how many students and staff were
on the campus during the evaluation.
Ing-Wiese said the college is trying
to trace the phone call but she isn't
confident it will be successful.
"With all the throw-away cell phones
these days," Ing-Wiese said, "who
knows if they'll be able to trace it."
Kerstetter hopes whoever made
the bomb threat will be caught and
prosecuted.
"If someone did this as a lark or a
joke, it's just not funny," she said. "I was
freaked out because my three-year-old
daughter is here at the child care center."
Michael A.Booth is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald