Campus Where Jewish Professor Was Targeted Closed Again After Telephone Threat
Evergreen State College Image by Google Maps
By Josh Nathan-Kazis June 2, 2017
Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington remained closed on Friday, after a 911 call a day earlier from an individual who claimed to be armed and on his way to campus.
The school has been the focus of widespread media attention in recent days, since a biology professor, Bret Weinstein, went public with complaints that he had been targeted by a “campus mob” of protesters. Harshly negative press coverage from Fox News and Breitbart, among other outlets, followed.
In a statement on its website, the school said that an anonymous caller to an area 911 line had claimed to be “armed and en route to Evergreen’s Olympia campus.”
The school closed Thursday and remained closed Friday. A notice on the college’s website alerts that campus operations are suspended.
Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at [email protected] or on Twitter, @joshnathankazis.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
