White Powder Scare at WSJ & HLS
Today there were white powder scares at some venerable institutions. The Wall Street Journal editors were targeted this morning, as were professors at Harvard Law School. Many tipsters believe that Professor Alan Dershowitz was targeted.
HLS just sent around this message reassuring students:
Dear members of the HLS Community,Earlier today, a letter delivered to an office on the Fifth floor of Hauser Hall was opened by a faculty assistant and was found to contain some white powder. The university police and the Cambridge police department were notified and responded to the scene immediately, along with the Cambridge Fire Department and the university’s Environmental Health & Safety team.
There is no indication of adverse effects to any of the people who were in the vicinity of the letter when it was opened. Samples have been taken for laboratory testing by the investigating authorities.
While testing has yet to be completed, the authorities have concluded and informed the law school, based on the investigation thus far, that they do not believe that an evacuation of Hauser Hall is warranted. Nevertheless, because the investigation is ongoing, caution and prudence require that the fifth floor of the building remain off limits until the investigators have cleared the scene. Moreover, in order to minimize the possibility of interference with the investigators and responders, the law school administration is asking that anyone intending to study or conduct
business in Hauser not do so until further notice informing the community that the building can once again be accessed freely.Any students and staff presently in Hauser should feel free to leave if they so choose. Classes scheduled in Hauser later today or this evening, are being rescheduled, and any affected individuals or groups should contact the office of the Registrar for further information regarding new locations for those activities.
We will continue to update the community as we learn more.
I know Professor Dershowitz a little. Intimidating this man is not an option. In fact, Dersh is more likely to defend these powder sending yahoos and use the case as an educational opportunity for his students than he is to lose sleep over this nonsense.
Next time, you best bring kryptonite.
We’re glad to hear everybody is safe.
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In Law school we had tons of white powder scares. . .
But then we called a guy named "Honch" and he came and resupplied.
"dersh?"
MysTTTal, stop mailing flower to people and save it for your baking.
"i know Professor Dershowitz a little" = Elie's fat ass can barely fit throught a doorway and one time squished dershowitz against a wall
"lose sleep" not "loose sleep"
One never wants to loose sleep. It's dangerous.
coke on a wednesday
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
How does one "loose sleep"?
I, for one, prefer tight sleep.
"loose sleep." Nice one, Elie.
Lawyers live by a strict code of ethics. If someone leaves half of a zip of coke on your glass coffee table, you return it. Kudos to the virtuous HLS law folks for doing the right thing.
Is loose sleep some sort of HLS euphemism for gay sex?
What's taking so long to make the Dersh-Douche connection? All the kids on recess?
Dammit grammar douchetards one correction is enough!
You know Prof. Dershowitz? That's funny, he told me he doesn't have a clue who you are.
relax elie, there was no other evidence of a powdered donut found anywhere, we can go back to other news.
Cahill layoffs?
Cahill layoffs?
"Dersh is more likely to defend these powder sending yahoos and use the case as an educational opportunity for his students than he is to lose sleep over this nonsense."
Unless they had something bad to say about Israel. Then they're anti-semites who don't deserve rights.
I can't believe the number of losers commenting on the typo. No wonder you guys have no billable hours.
Dershowitz is just as likely to blame it on Arabs and Muslims and use it to justify ethnic cleansing and torture as he is to...
well, he's definitely going to blame it on Arabs/Muslims and use it to justify ethnic cleansing and torture
he's a disgusting human being and i hope ellie (or anyone) never has to have gay sex (or any sex) with him ever
Sending white powder to Alan Dershowitz = Super faggoty.
Referring to Alan Dershowitz as "Dersh" = JUST AS FAGGOTY.
I was in the building at the time. The scare happened around noon and the building wasn't evacuated until around 5pm. They only closed off the 5th floor for most of the day (though I saw people ducking under the yellow police tape all day, not looking too worried).
And I can confirm that it was sent to Dershowitz.
Oh also HLS just sent out an update; the power was totally harmless and the building will be reopened as usual. --24
More material for "Story Time" next year. Glad I was notified when this happened, despite, you know.... being in the building.
Seriously why not just evacuate everybody to be safe?
Sad but true story:
Around the time that Anthrax scares first hit the news, we received a mailed package from abroad containing wedding pictures and mesh thingys containing white stuff.
Unmoved by my logic that Al Qaeda was unlikely to even know our names and addresses, let alone target us, my wife insisted that the persons in the photos were 1. unknown to her and 2. "Arabs", and that 3. we call the police and report an anthrax terror incident.
Not anxious to become yet another retard couple featured on CNN who overreacted to a "terrorist" suspected package containing white stuff, I refused to call the cops. My wife was not to be mollified (“You have killed us!”)
It turned out that the wedding couple were my wife's cousins (albeit distant cousins) and that the enclosures were white wedding thingys.
White power scare at HLS? Great..it's about time...look at the wonderful product of the school...MysTTTal....(insert Obama comment here)
I had a white powder scare before bar review - that Id ran out of it!
its winter term at HLS. Most professors, especially the big name ones, aren't even on campus. Stupid fake terrorists.