On the day biology junior Evelyn Hubbard threatened to blow up Monroe Hall and kill five professors, no buildings were evacuated and no faculty members were notified.

The Nov. 17 incident went unnoticed by the Loyola community until news of the threats surfaced in December. It’s been two months since the incident, and faculty members said they have yet to receive notification. According to the affidavit, Hubbard said she had a pistol with “Five bullets in it for five professors.” The identities of the five professors were not revealed in the criminal complaint.

Assistant biology professor Aimee Thomas said she first heard about the threats after reading a Nola.com article released Dec. 15.

“Literally my mouth gaped open,” Thomas said. “I was in shock.”

According to Thomas, no one in her department has yet to hear from the university concerning the incident.

“I definitely think that we should have been notified even if it was after the incident,” Thomas said. “We still have yet to receive anything.”

Professor and Chairman of Biological Sciences Craig Hood said that he read about the incident when the story broke in The Times-Picayune one month after the incident.

“I was obviously shocked like I’m sure everyone else was,” Hood said. “We’re a very small community here, and it was pretty shocking to hear about all this and see the details.”

After reading of the incident, Hood said he took it upon himself to contact the university.

“They basically confirmed what was described in The Times-Picayune and The Maroon pieces,” Hood said.

Although not initially notified, Hood said he understands the procedures undertaken by the university.

“I think that obviously after anything like this all the different parts of the university that were part of this, from campus police all the way through the different administrative offices, everyone had to go through an assessment to see what worked and what didn’t work,” Hood said.

Director of Public Affairs and External Relations Meredith Hartley said the threats were not found to be credible. According to Hartley, notifications were not made to the university community because a significant emergency, dangerous situation or ongoing threat could not be confirmed.

“As a university we take any threat very seriously, and our police department immediately conducted a thorough threat assessment after receiving the threatening emails,” Hartley said.

According to information gathered from the Loyola University Police Department and the Office of Risk Management, LUPD, in conjunction with the New Orleans Police Department and the FBI, conducted the assessment, determining the threats to be neither credible nor an immediate threat to the university.

“The safety of the university community is our number one priority, and at no time during this incident was our campus in danger,” Hartley said.

Thomas said that even though she did not receive notification concerning the incident, she trusts the university acted in the best interest of the community.

“Maybe it’s naive, but I trust that they explored and investigated to make sure that we were all safe,” Thomas said.

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