Police consider College of Human Sciences safe after bomb threat

Texas Tech Police searched the College of Human Sciences after a bomb threat was called into the department.

Gordon Hoffman, the deputy chief of the Tech Police Department, said an unknown person called the department at 3:52 p.m. Wednesday, threatening that there was a bomb in the college.

Tech police responded within two minutes, Hoffman said, and searched the buildings and informed instructors a threat had been called in.

Hoffman said there was not a forced evacuation of the buildings because the department did not believe the threat to have enough validity.

If the threat was more specific, he said, it would have triggered a different response.

Hoffman said the Tech police searched the building as thoroughly as possible, and they have no concern that there is a hazard in the college.

Contrary to an article in Thursday's issue of The Daily Toreador, Barbara Bass, assistant to the dean of the College of Human Sciences, said Tech police searched all of the buildings in the college, not just the Child Research Development Center and the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery.

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