By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN
(CNN) — Princeton University on Tuesday morning ordered the evacuation of its campus after “a bomb threat to multiple unspecified campus buildings,” the school said on its website.
Princeton police dispatcher Kenneth Bruvik told CNN that the campus was being evacuated because of an “emergency” but declined to give details.
“Please evacuate the campus and all university offices immediately and go home unless otherwise directed by your supervisor,” the school’s website message said. “Do not return to campus for any reason until advised otherwise.”
Princeton University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua told CNN, “The bomb threat was a phone call made directly to the university.”
He said origin of the call had not been determined, and that the ongoing sweep of buildings on campus would be going on for several hours.
The university noted in a tweet that regular classes are over and commencement was last week. “Most students left campus days or weeks ago,” the Twitter message said.
Students still at the university were finding places in the area to hunker down until it was OK to return to campus, according to Brianna Gagnon at the Yankee Doodle Tap Room. A pair of basketball players strolled in, and two dozen students have congregated at the bar, she said.
At the Ivy Inn bar, part-owner Jeff Aton said that “there are not a lot of kids on campus for the summer,” but “everybody who’s there is being told to leave campus.”
He said there isn’t really a scene and there is not a big outflow of people from the school now.
The Princeton incident is one of several high-profile but apparently unrelated bomb threats that occurred Monday and Tuesday across the United States. One triggered a three-hour evacuation of Virginia’s Richmond International Airport on Tuesday morning; another forced the evacuation of three state office buildings near Georgia’s Capitol building in Atlanta, authorities there said.
A third, on Monday, led to a Texas-bound commercial jetliner being diverted to Phoenix after taking off from Los Angeles on Monday.
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