[1131] in peace2
Campus Alert: White powder found at MIT being checked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Tue Oct 16 16:25:10 2001
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:25:05 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
I could go on and on about how the impending genocide in
Afghanistan will *not* make US citizens safer and I will,
but meanwhile, please be careful when handling mail.
>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:24:01 -0400
>To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@MIT.EDU
>From: "Kathryn A. Willmore" <kaw@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Campus Alert: White powder found at MIT being checked
>
>October 16, 2001
>
>
>To Administrative Council, Administrative Officers, and Student Leaders:
>
>Please pass this message on to those in your area. (A message has been
>sent directly to the faculty.)
>
>This morning, an MIT lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literature was
>exposed to a white powder after opening a piece of mail in his office on
>the third floor of Building 14.
>
>He called the Campus Police, who responded immediately, together with the
>MIT Biosafety Office, and the Cambridge Fire Department Hazardous
>Materials Team.
>
>The individual, along with two others in the area, were checked by the MIT
>Medical Department and decontaminated. The office has been sealed off and
>steps have been taken to decontaminate the office and other areas of the
>building.
>
>The powder, less than a teaspoon, was collected by the hazardous Materials
>Team and is being delivered to the State laboratory for testing. Initial
>results should be available within a day.
>
>In the meantime, please refer to the advisory on mail handling, which is
>posted on the News Office website at
>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/mailglavin.html.
>The advisory is being distributed to the mail distribution centers for
>pick-up by individual offices.
>
>Disposable gloves are available for free in Room 56-070 for anyone who
>wishes to use them for mail handling.
>
>Information session: This afternoon, between 4:30 and 6;00, Dr. David
>Diamond and Dr. Howard Heller of the Medical Department, will be available
>in Room 26-100 to answer any questions members of the MIT community may
>have about biohazards.
>
>The incident remains under investigation. We will keep you posted as we
>learn more. Please also check the MIT Homepage at http://web.mit.edu/ and
>the News Office website at http://web.mit.edu/news.html for updates.
>
>
>Kathryn Willmore
>____________________________
>
>Kathryn A. Willmore
>Vice President and
>Secretary of the Corporation
>Room 3-207
>MIT
>Email kaw@mit.edu
>Phone 617-253-1704
>
