FOXNews.com: UPDATE: Texas Campus Reopens After Evacuation

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UPDATE: Texas Campus Reopens After Evacuation Sep 14th 2012, 17:47 DEVELOPING: Bomb threats led to evacuations on Friday at the University of Texas and North Dakota State University, authorities said. It's unclear whether the two threats were related. An alert posted at about 10 a.m. local time at the University of Texas told people on campus to immediately evacuate all buildings and to "get as far away as possible." The deadline passed without incident, and the university issued another advisory saying all buildings had been cleared. Per an announcement on the university's Twitter feed, all activities except classes will resume at 5 p.m. local time and buildings may be reentered at noon. Remaining classes on Friday had been cancelled. Earlier Friday, Rhonda Weldon, the school's director of communications, said the university received a call about 8:35 a.m. from a man claiming to be affiliated with Al Qaeda. The man said he'd placed bombs all over the campus that would detonate in 90 minutes. All buildings were evacuated at 9:50 a.m. as a precaution, Wheldon said. North Dakota State University in Fargo also ordered a campus evacuation after receiving a bomb threat. NDSU officials issued a statement shortly before 10 a.m. informing all employees and students to leave campus within 30 minutes because of a bomb threat. Those in residence halls at the university have been told to walk to locations off campus.  NDSU President Dean Bresciani said the threat came in a "telephone call to the campus," but provided no details on who received the call or what the caller said. Neither university officials nor Fargo police would say whether the threats at NDSU might be related to those in Texas. Fargo police Lt. Joel Vettel also declined to provide details on the call to NDSU. Freshman Caleb Helbling, of Faribault, Minn., said he was walking into an engineering class just before 10 a.m. when someone else came in and said there was a bomb threat and students needed to leave. As he was walking out, he received an automated call to his cell phone about the evacuation. He went to a Pizza Hut near campus to pass time and have lunch. Other students said they were notified by email, voice and text messages. Bresciani said NDSU's the main campus was evacuated, along with the school's downtown campus and its agricultural facilities. He said it's difficult to evacuate 20,000 people immediately, but most of the evacuation happened within a matter of minutes. "As you can see, the place is vacant," he said at a news conference held off campus. "That largely took place in a matter of minutes." The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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