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| WIU Presidnet Reacts to Bomb Threat Charges |
The president of Western Illinois University says he hopes to be able to seek some restitution now that federal charges are facing a Chicago teen accused of most of the recent bomb threats on the Macomb campus in the last month.
Al Goldfarb was asked about whether or not restitution would be sought if 18 year old Cameron McKoy of Chicago is convicted on charges federal charges of making a phoned-in bomb threat to Tanner Hall October 25th. Officials also believes he is responsible for other threats via phone between then and last Thursday.
Goldfarb says, however, it's hard to say just how much restitution could be sought.
"We're still in the midst of collecting that right now, actually we discussed that this morning in terms of trying to collect on the impact of the institution, actually there are numbers of intangibles that are issues as well in terms of impact of recruiting of students, impact of cost of personnel, clearly not hourly employees, but they're spending intense amounts of time on this issue."
Goldfarb says he believes the University is still going to be a safe place for incoming Freshmen, though there's no telling yet if any students will change their minds about going to Western given the bomb threats.
For current students, officials say counselors still remain available.
(F.B.I. Special Agent Stu McArthur speaks Tuesday at Western Illinois University in Macomb, while WIU president Al Goldfarb and others listen. WGIL News Story and Photo by Will Stevenson.) |
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