155个bomb threat。。。一楼更新，是要结束了?

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首先，匹兹堡大学突然撤掉5万美元悬赏。仅仅是因为接到一封信。
之后，凶嫌断然停止行动，困扰匹大两个多月的“诈弹事件”有望画下句点。

    话说昨晚匹大无预警从其“诈弹事件”专页上撤掉悬赏金额的消息，之后虽然当地3号电台（KDKA）还有两大主流报纸《匹兹堡邮报》和《匹兹堡论坛报》有报道此事，但原因语焉不详。
    而昨晚匹大校报《匹大新闻报》（PittNews）倒先在其网站上刊登题为《匹大接到匿名信后撤掉“诈弹事件”悬赏》的报道讲述原委，即周四（4月19日）那天该报有收到一封匿名信，有声称为3月30日以后的“诈弹事件”负责的“一群人”提到从周五（20日）上午8点到周六（21日）上午8点将不实施威胁，并请匹大撤掉悬赏金额，否则将恢复行动，而且还说“这都是你，诺登堡校长，对一些恶搞学校的年轻小子悬赏1万美元（后为5万美元）引发的。”（“This all began when you, Nordenberg, put out a $10,000 — then $50,000 — ‘reward’ (bounty) for some young kid who'd pranked the University.”），而且甚至还提到曾在4月10日为时24小时的“停火期”内曾发出内容相同的电邮，并扬言“我们现在向你提出同样的条件。你只要拿掉悬赏金，我们就会终止一切行动。”（“We make the same offer to you now. Simply withdraw the ‘reward,’ and we will end our actions permanently,” ）
    而匹大由于曾接受联邦层级执法机构建议，就是4月10日匹大校长宅邸遭威胁后，不可与凶嫌单独谈判，于是便只能采取先撤掉悬赏金额以观后效，不料在近半夜时分，则《匹大新闻报》便接到另一封匿名信，称“既然匹大撤掉其所张贴5万美元赏金，那么我们唯一要求已获满足，我们的行动即刻结束。”（“The university authorities at Pitt have withdrawn the $50000 reward they offered, and, as our only demand has been met, our campaign is over with immediate effect.”）。
    果如此，则困扰匹大长达70天的“系列诈弹事件”可望宣告结束；而从2月13日发生第一起，到4月20日为止，总共发生至少155起“诈弹威胁”。

回顾匹大“诈弹事件”过程，则3月30日匹大悬赏1万美元捉拿凶手，之前两天匹大开始一天发生至少两起“诈弹威胁”；之后4月2日匹大将悬赏金额提高到5万美元，结果第二天凌晨4点匹大的本科生宿舍开始遭到波及；再之后，则事件不断升级，一日10起上下几成常态。
    4月9日下午3点到4月10日晚上10点，匹大未发生任何“诈弹威胁”，到10日晚上才有匹大校长宅邸遭威胁的事情发生，而这之前竟是凶手所称曾发信要求只要匹大撤掉悬赏金额，那么“诈弹事件”不再发生，否则继续行动。
    但是，目前无法解释为什么4月14日下午3点到4月16日上午9点没有任何“诈弹威胁”，是否凶手其实就是该校学生，当时为参加该校春季嘉年华（Bigelow Bash）和/或也曾如之前那般发信要求撤除悬赏。
    可很明显当时凶嫌的要求未获满足，所以便恢复行动，每日数“诈”，18号以后情况如下：

4月19日  本日总共15幢建筑遭遇“诈弹威胁”。
    早晨8时，中心宿舍楼群、旁边的Bruce、护理学院旁边的Lothrop，及山上的Sutherland和Pennsylvania等本科生宿舍被点名；下午1点45分刚过，Alumni Hall被迫疏散；近4点半，则学习大教堂、化学系大楼、工学院大楼、法学院大楼，以及Posvar全遭点名；6点半刚过，则学生会大楼及大学联欢社被迫疏散。
    同一日，则媒体报道之前有来匹兹堡联邦法院出庭，被怀疑与近期匹大“诈弹事件”有关的一对转性别夫妻的电脑被手持法官谕令的FBI探员没收扣押。

4月20日   当日虽然只有9幢楼被点名，但却是匹大本科生经历过的最黑暗的一天。
    凌晨2点半，中心宿舍楼群及旁边的Bruce和Holland、护理学院大楼旁的Lothrop、及山上所有的本科生宿舍均遭波及，结果大批学生被迫带着包包撤到彼德森活动中心，接过现场人员分发的折叠床、毯子、枕头以及提供的甜甜圈（donuts）和咖啡，便在那儿经历最难熬的漫长的三小时。而匹大校长和教务长接报，立马赶赴现场慰问学生，很使部分人为之动容和大受感动。
    当日媒体有报道，FBI探员有在纽约某网站公司擒获一台服务器，发现有三封寄往匹大的匿名“诈弹”信从那儿经过，于是他们想顺藤摸瓜，查清到底发信的那一头都有谁。
    而今日起，匹大脸书页面上曾张贴的关于“诈弹”的紧急通知系统（ENS）便条被悉数删除，只余校方要求师生镇定度过难关的声明和专文仍在。
    当天下午1点半，学生会大楼前草坪上人头攒动，原来是学生会将两张满是签名的“感谢匹大校警”的签字板和横幅转赠匹大校警，而校警头头欣然接受不说，还发表声明感谢，并介绍该校校警唯一的一头警犬（昵称为“里格斯警官”[Officer Riggs]，真名叫Rick Abort）与大家亮相，顿时掌声雷动。

4月21日   上午10时，中心宿舍楼群、学习大教堂、音乐学院大楼旁的学生楼Ruskin Hall、山上的本科生宿舍Pennsylvania Hall、医学院大楼（Scaife Hall）以及药学院和牙医学院所在的Salk Hall均遭点名。
    其中医学院大楼与UPMC长老医院连为一体，2楼有医学图书馆，11楼有一间面积很大的食堂，所以一旦发生“诈弹”或真的炸弹攻击的话，这疏散会非常麻烦，而且可能连医院都被迫撤出现场；Salk Hall则在医学院大楼对面，毗邻彼德森活动中心，且以当年在匹大研制去活性的小儿麻痹症疫苗闻名的Jonas Salk命名。
    而今日媒体有报道，FBI探员手持法官谕令再度去那对转性别夫妻那儿，查扣手机、笔记还有其他文件等物品，并携回匹兹堡调查其与匹大“诈弹事件”的关联；而该对夫妻定4月27日再赴匹兹堡的联邦法院出庭，以便联邦陪审团决定是否起诉这两个人。

之后便出现跌破大家眼镜的进展，即撤掉悬赏金额，及凶嫌之两封电邮，宣告匹大“诈弹事件”结束。
    而这恰好在匹大要举行的毕业典礼前的一周出现如此结局；但这已对一些高年级，甚至临近毕业的本科生造成干扰和困惑，甚至使一些胆小的人休学离校，或对匹大印象不佳。
    虽然“诈弹威胁”可以不再发生，但希望可以将凶手早日捉拿到案，以便赔偿大家的精神损失费。



转自新浪博客

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保重

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什么学校呀。。。

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看到了，Upitt，写博客的那个人是个技术宅，还temporal spatial analysis，lol

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又更新了。。。

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bless

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注意安全~

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这么劲爆...

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出入平安啊

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注意安全。。要好好保护自己。

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u pitt啊
我一朋友在化学系，已经被报了四次了。
都小心为上吧。

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谢谢LS各位关心，冰棒所在的商学院暂时还未被threat过，我也会小心 :loveliness:

今天有外地朋友来玩，陪他们参观主教学楼36层时收到通知这栋楼被bomb threat，没赶上电梯只好走楼梯><腿都快走抽了:dizzy:

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收到校长邮件，全文如下：     （快速阅读请直接阅读红字段落）

To:     The University Community
From:   Mark A. Nordenberg
Date:   April 6, 2012
Re:     Continuing Campus Disruptions

Normally, this is a very special time of year.  Winter weather has passed, flowers are in bloom, the end of the academic year is in sight, and people’s spirits are high. But this has been anything but a normal spring at Pitt.

Instead, in recent weeks, we have received what has seemed to be an unending succession of bomb threats.  Some have been focused on a single facility, while others posed threats to multiple buildings.  Those threats have been a disruption to campus life affecting students, faculty and staff.  They also are an understandable source of heightened anxiety, not only for those living and working on campus but also for their family members.

It is true as a number of people have said, in comforting tones, to me that this could have happened anywhere.  But sadly, it is happening here at Pitt on a campus that is widely recognized as safe by all comparative measures and that is known for its sense of community.

To underscore what has been a consistent message, in dealing with these threats, our highest priority has been the safety of the Pitt community.  To advance that priority, we have made regular use of our emergency notification system.  We have evacuated every threatened building, despite the inconvenience that has caused.  We also have carefully searched every such building before permitting activities in it to resume and, to repeat a key point, we have detected no evidence of any explosives of any kind at any site.

Proceeding in this fashion, though, has placed heavy demands on police, both in the University and in the broader community.  We are deeply grateful for the help that we have received from partner law enforcement agencies, both in preserving campus safety and in pressing forward with the investigation that ultimately will bring these criminal acts to an end.

Particularly because the precise pattern of these threats does not repeat past challenges faced by other universities, one key dimension of our partnerships with other agencies has been to seek their assessments of our security efforts and to let us know if there are other steps that we should be taking.  Overwhelmingly, those responses have been supportive of our approach.

This does not mean, of course, that there are not those, on and off campus, who would argue for something different.  At one end of that spectrum are those who feel that we are being too cautious, are creating our own disruptions to campus life through the approach we have chosen, and are consuming too many resources by continuing to evacuate and search every targeted building.  Though there may be a certain logic to a less cautious approach, cutting back on our efforts, given the many uncertainties that continue to exist with respect to the circumstances we now face, has not seemed consistent with the priority that we assign to safety.

At the other end of the spectrum are those who feel that we should go further and close down this campus, either for a specified time or even indefinitely. That alternative also had been considered but has not been viewed as the most appropriate choice.  Even in the face of these threats which, as I already have noted, have been disruptive  most of our important work has continued.  And with respect to this alternative, we have tried to enable students who feel the need to be more cautious to make that choice.  Any student who feels that leaving campus before the end of the academic term is the best alternative can make that decision, and we will do our best to facilitate the completion of his or her remaining academic responsibilities.

Among our most important partners in these ongoing efforts are David Hickton, the chief federal law enforcement officer in this region in his position as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Mr. Hickton and I are in direct and regular contact.  Even more important is the fact that members of the University of Pittsburgh Police Department and the FBI are working closely on this matter, just as they have worked together on other matters over the course of many years.   In fact, both the Pitt Police and the FBI are members of this region’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which has been a source of advice and support in this case.

Earlier today, U.S. Attorney Hickton issued a statement regarding the challenges that we now face and our shared efforts to deal with them.  That statement has been posted in its entirety on the University’s homepage at http://www.pitt.edu/news2012/hickton.pdf.  Among its principal messages are these:

- that the safety of the University of Pittsburgh community is a top priority;

- that the bomb threats are being vigorously, aggressively and thoroughly investigated by every possible means;

- that the resilience of the University community is to be commended; and

- that the University of Pittsburgh is exercising appropriate regard for safety . . . while refusing to allow such threats to paralyze the entire University community.

Obviously, we all wish that these threats, and the challenges that they present, had never been visited upon us.  However, despite those earnest wishes, the challenges did come, and we now are doing our very best to deal effectively with them.  And even while we are dealing with the direct challenges presented by the threats, including everything that is involved in our security and investigatory efforts, we also are doing our best to reach out to the University community and its many constituent groups as regularly as is appropriate and possible.

We appreciate the cooperation and support that have come from throughout the entire University community and from our many friends, do believe that progress is being made in the ongoing investigation and look forward to the time, hopefully in the near-term, when we all can put this particular set of challenges behind us.

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pitts居然有36楼的教学楼啊。在纽约，哥大纽大都没那么高的教学楼。

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校长写的英文就是好，来我们学校吧，整个quad樱花盛开，太美了