Bomb threat clears Chancellor’s office

The CSU Chancellor’s office was evacuated on Friday morning after a suspicious package was received from a student at CSU Stanislaus.

Over one dozen members of the CSU board of trustees and several CSU campus presidents who were attending a meeting of the Academic Senate at the buildings conference center were quickly evacuated and whisked off to a suite at a nearby hotel.

Also evacuated were hundreds of CSU employees and members of the Academic Senate.

Among those evacuated were CSUS president Donald Gerth and CSUS professor Michael Fitzgerald, a member of the statewide Academic Senate, who said that the bomb threat was not taken lightly.

“This wasn’t like a routine fire drill,” said Fitzgerald. “Police had everyone moved back at least 250 yards from the building.”

By 1 p.m., Los Angeles County bomb squad officials had extended the radius between one quarter and one half a mile from the building. Employees began to filter back into the building once police officials gave the all-clear at 1:40 p.m.

The Chancellor’s office is located at 400 Golden Shore Blvd. in a modern six-story building on the Long Beach waterfront. The new building had been occupied for less than three weeks before Friday’s bomb threat.