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VOLUME 39 I ISSUE

Capilano Courier April 12th, 1985

This was before 9-11 too.

Capilano Courier Friday, April 12 1985 Page 3

NEWS

Bomb threat brings cops to Cap
day for a class on International
Studies. They had talked about
"It wasn't them!" said the phoning in a bomb scare, keeping
French delegate member when with the spirit of the international
Political Science instructor Ed affairs.
The police officers were led, by
Lavalle infonned his class of the
rumour that the group represent­ Eadie, to the fifth floor of the
ing the Palestinian Liberation building where the final project, a
llrganization had telephoned a simulated meeting of a United
Nations conference on the Mid­
mb threat.
A telephoned bomh mil to a dle East, was taking place.
Ed Lavalle. instructor of U1e
C Tel operator caused the cvac-­
Political Science 203 class was
ation of H-huildin� last Thurs
y. At approximate!} ti:OX pm called out and informed of the
e North Va11-·pu1-cr RCMP situation. Eadie, after some dis­
tachment rc-cci,ed a call from cussion (he said, "political
e opt'rator abo.1.1t the presence of science students arc sclf­
riglllt•ous ... and that the chance of
a bomb in H-building.
Units resp<inded quickly to the a ,·011fc,s1t ,11 fr. im them is lnw.)
11 ith thL' "ili-:ers. went into the
enc with ma1ntcna1H:e persnn
rte! arriving sh11r1I:- al"ln and prn ,lass read, tu identify those he
vicling informatt,,11 ,HJ the layout had on•rhca1d. "He walked over
of the building.. President elect, to the PLO delegation and it
Robert Eadie. wa, aho ,111 the looked like he had just forgotten
cc-nc a, he 1 .. 11.,\,,·d !he 111n11in)! somethin� in the room," said
ma1111,·11.111,c 111r11 It.- 11flned rn
student, 'fodd Wong. Eadie in­
'"' urau,in un th,· I'< ,,s,hk SPIH"L'C dicated to Lavalle that it was
them.The PLO group was then
f the call 11:ill an hour pre
fously he h;id ll\ cl h,•ard some questioned by the officers in the
Business Administration office.
nversatil)n in tlw 11\\rth cakl
The PLO group said 'that ther,·
eria from four studenls wh11 had
their final prc�entatinn� du.: that Wl're some "radical countrws ..

by Jim Chow

Capilano Courier March 26th, 1980
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represented at the meeting and it
wouldn't be implausable for one
of them to phone it in. ''We didn't
phone in the bomb hoax."
Ed Lavalle said that all of the
students were in the morn al
around quarter to 6 and since Lhc
call was made shortly aftcr6 pm it
was not possible for one ,,I them
to have made the call as 111, one

came in late. He hinted at the
strong possibility that it was
someone from outside of the class.
Constable Stu McCloud, who
appeared to be the senior officer
in charge. said he had lo be
"l00% sur,: that there is no
bomb.''
Lavalle then appealed to h1,
class for whom ever was respon

sible to come forward or else the
class will have lo be relocated.
The class commandeered the
north cafeteria east wing to re­
sume their class.
McCloud said. "We're just
go11111,toshut rt (H huilding)down
for 1hc 11111,ht and if it'� still
sta11d111;t 1m11orro" we'll know it
WIL� a honx ..