<p>Lovely. This has to stop. Yale</a> locked down on report of gunman</p>
<p>Just horrible.</p>
<p>Timing is everything. It’s Thanksgiving break so a lot of students are at home, not on campus.</p>
<p>Yep, just texted with my son who lives near the campus with his GF who is a student at Yale law. Fortunately, they are on break. S says they have received numerous text alerts and are not leaving their apt.</p>
<p>I used to wonder how it could ever be possible to lock down a campus. Then smartphones took over the world. </p>
<p>You really do need a mechanism for locking down colleges when there’s police activity in the area. I’m glad they can do it now.</p>
<p>Didnt deer season in the North East just start? Seeing someone with a gun might not be that unusual.</p>
<p>New Haven is not exactly where you’d head to hunt deer.</p>
<p>^^^deer being shot at within the city of New Haven? On the Yale campus? :rolleyes:
ETA: x-posted with amandakayak</p>
<p>argbargy,
Perhaps you have the deer in New Haven confused with Deer Haven Golf club in Wisconsin. An honest mistake :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Watching press briefing right now.</p>
<p>[Report</a> of Gunman on or Near Yale Campus | NBC Connecticut](<a href=“Police ID Several People of Interest in Yale Threat – NBC Connecticut”>Police ID Several People of Interest in Yale Threat – NBC Connecticut)</p>
<p>Anonymous caller phoned from phone booth saying his roommate was heading to Yale to shoot people. Thankfully Yale breaks for a week at Thanksgiving, so no classes.</p>
<p>But according to some, we should be more worried about rogue swimming pools.
Has there been confirmation besides the anon call?</p>
<p>As the holidays can trigger mental illness in some people, I wonder if the caller is actually the man in the overcoat & he is hoping for a suicide by cop.</p>
<p>jonri - Thank you for the link to the live feed! (CNN does not seem to think this merits their attention - not at the moment, anyway. :()</p>
<p>argbargy - Deer, really? In downtown New Haven? Are you kidding???</p>
<p>While students may be on recess for the holiday, praying that staff and faculty and others who would be at work on campus today are safe. </p>
<p>All emergency procedures on campuses around the country should periodically be tested similar to the high/middle/elementary school lockdown procedures. Communications and emergency response should be properly evaluated for the safety of all in this “new world” we all live in.</p>
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<p>Well, to be honest, until / unless something awful happens, does it need to be on CNN? It seems it’s on the local news in CT. Just because it’s Yale and all - somehow I doubt if there were similar reports at East Directional U, it would be on CNN.</p>
<p>Most international undergraduate students are still on campus…</p>
<p>If East Directional U were in any major urban location, I’d expect that to get coverage also.</p>
<p>Doubtful until shots are fired. It’s been five hours now without incident.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call New Haven, CT a “major urban location” - it’s hardly a major city by any stretch of the imagination; do you even think most people outside of New England have ever even heard of it?</p>
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<p>Shall we take a poll?</p>
<p>No, I don’t really care (other than hoping no one gets hurt). I guess I’m not quite sure why a campus anywhere getting locked down (without shots actually being fired) warrants national news coverage. Is it just because it’s Yale that people think this?</p>