A bomb threat called in to the St. Thomas switchboard Wednesday morning led the university to evacuate McNeely Hall and other campus buildings and cancel classes for the day. Officials closed the university’s St. Paul campus at 11:42 a.m.

No suspicious objects were found, and an all-clear was issued at 4:08 p.m. However, the St. Paul campus remained closed until Thursday.

According to an email sent by Public Safety late Wednesday afternoon, the campus switchboard received a call at 9:37 a.m. from a person claiming to have placed a bomb on campus. A second call was received at 10:10 a.m. naming McNeely Hall as the location.

A redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on President Trump and the 2016 election is now public. While Mueller drew no conclusion about whether Trump had obstructed justice, U.S. Attorney General William Barr concluded that while

Trump was “frustrated and angry” about the Mueller probe, nothing the president did rose to the level of an “obstruction-of-justice offense.”

Barr said Mueller’s report examined 10 episodes pertaining to Trump and obstruction.

The 13 MIAC presidents will consider whether to expel St. Thomas from the conference on April 18, with a final vote scheduled for May. MIAC rivals complain about the university’s relatively larger enrollment and athletic success.

With 6,200 undergraduate students, its size is nearly double St. Olaf, the next largest school. Currently St. Thomas sits 10th in the Learfield IMG Director’s Cup, a ranking of all Division III athletic teams’ finishes in the country. The next MIAC school is Carleton at No. 50.

If the MIAC successfully expels St. Thomas, the Star Tribune reported that Macalester would return to the MIAC for football.

The Tommies’ first season in a new conference would be the 2021 season, one year after the 100th anniversary of the founding of the MIAC by St. Thomas, St. John’s, Hamline, Macalester and Gustavus Adolphus.

Jacob Schneider can be reached at schn6923@stthomas.edu