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Verified verbatimUniversity of Missouri System official news release ('UMR cancels all classes for Tuesday, Feb. 27')1108 chars
All classes at the University of Missouri-Rolla have been canceled for Tuesday, Feb. 27, due to a threat affecting the Butler-Carlton Civil Building on campus.
At approximately 2:32 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, UMR Police Department responded to a call regarding a UMR student who was threatening terrorist type actions. The student was apprehended at UMR's Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Building located on Pine Street in Rolla by the UMR Police Department and is now in custody and is being questioned by law enforcement officials.
The Civil Engineering Building has been evacuated and the City of Rolla has activated the Mobile Command Center to respond to this situation. The Rolla Fire Department Weapons of Mass Destruction team has set up a decontamination unit on 16th Street south of Pine to decontaminate eight UMR students, one professor and 14 other individuals who were in the building at the time the suspect was apprehended. A white powdery substance was found on the suspect that is currently being investigated along with possible bomb materials.
Classes should resume Wednesday, Feb. 28.
Verbatim text of the official University of Missouri System news release issued the morning of February 27, 2007 — UMR's primary mass-notification channel was the campus website and this release, as text-message alert systems were not yet widespread on campuses
The release's lead sentence calls it the 'Butler-Carlton Civil Building' while the second paragraph uses the full 'Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Building' — both phrasings are preserved exactly as published
Notes the 2:32 a.m. CST police response, the WMD-team decontamination of eight students, one professor and 14 others, and the 'white powdery substance' later found to be powdered sugar
The cancellation of all classes for an entire day was a significant decision for a campus of nearly 6,000 students