Another campus under attack by an someone carrying an umbrella. Umbrella 101 will be a required course next year.
Via WDRB
Indiana University Southeast was on a brief lockdown Thursday after a student reported seeing a man walking on campus with a backpack that had a weapon sticking out of it, but police later determined it was an umbrella.
IUS spokesperson Kendra Barnes told WDRB News that the report came from a student around around 12:30 p.m. The campus was immediately placed on lockdown and students and staff were advised to shelter in place.
The all-clear was given around 2 p.m., but police blocked entrances and searched the entire campus before locating the man fitting a description given by the student who called in the potential threat. […]
“We barricaded the doors,” said IUS student Hayley Jackey. “We had like table wedges under the door. The cops came, and they couldn’t even open the doors so we knew we were safe and everything.”
Jackey says students continued with classroom activities “to keep our minds distracted.”
Although the student who called police mistook an umbrella sticking out of a camouflage backpack for a rifle, IUS Chancellor Ray Wallace says he can understand why.
“When I saw the backpack in question, the student said he had seen a backpack and it looked like a rifle was sticking out of the backpack, camouflage backpack,” Wallace said. “When I saw it when police brought it in … it really did look quite like a rifle butt.”