A rash of bomb threats has severely disrupted routines at the University of Pittsburgh over the past two months, but faculty and students are striving to finish the semester as "normally" as possible.
Some professors have moved classes outdoors or online and are holding office hours in coffee shops, while students are studying and tackling make-up work in libraries or wherever they can plug in a laptop power cord. At the same time, administrators are stepping up their efforts to keep the campus safe.
The bomb threats began on February 13, when a message was found scribbled on a bathroom wall in the university's Chevron Science Center. Since then, waves of threats have zeroed in on several buildings on the campus, including the Cathedral of Learning, a towering structure that houses administrative offices, classrooms, libraries, and a restaurant. On Monday, 12 threats were received, raising the total to 57...
