Diplaced People and Boxes

A group of people from Glendale ventured over to the Pomona Fairgrounds this past weekend to support ending the war in Northern Uganda through Invisable Children and the Displace Me Campaign. 5000 people from the area gathered and built cardboard houses, wrote letters to politicians, listened to speakers, prayed, and watched new film reporting on the conditions of Northern Uganda. For a more detailed report be sure to see Rene's site as he did a wonderful job with a lot of teh details of the context of the turmoil in Uganda. (Click on Rene out of the GPC/Fuller peeps)


As Whitney was coming home from work yesterday, police were beginning to put up yellow tape around campus. She had heard that there was a bomb threat, but we didn't put much more thought into it after she made it home. As I then left for class an hour later, I couldn't get into campus as everything had been taped off. I asked a policewoman what was happening and she told me to look at the box that was sitting right on the corner of Walnut and Oakland... I looked and she told me that people thought that the box contained a bomb... I eventually made it to class after walking 8 blocks around all of the commotion. While sitting in class we were startled by an explosion. Our professor sent somebody to go check what it was and it turns out that the bomb squad blew up the box. In doing so they discovered that the box was simply filled with alarm clocks for the office in which it was sent. In light of the Virginia Tech Disaster, this was a pretty scary deal for the Fuller Community. If you close up on the picture, you can actually see the box sitting on the corner.