Widener Hit By Bomb Scare

Approximately 150 people were evacuated from Widener library yesterday afternoon after the Cambridge Fire Department received a telephone bomb threat.

Several library patrons said they had been startled when they were told to evacuate the building at approximately 3:40 p.m.

"The fire alarm went off and a man with a bullhorn was yelling there was a bombthreat--please leave," said Abby J. Aina '93.

Some said they thought library officials had overreacted in clearing the building. "A big and very rude security guard yelled 'You have to leave now' while I was typing," said Catherine E. Grant '93.

Cambridge fire officials said that it was department policy to clear large buildings threatened by bombs, but that they had not been worried that an explosive was really going to destroy Widener.