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So someone claimed to have a bomb planted in the school somewhere at IVCC on Oct. 7. Some loser somewhere probably had a homework assignment or a class that he or she didn’t wish to attend; that’s all the bomb threat was.

Congratulations anonymous loser, you won round one. You won’t win round two. Don’t blow the bomb threat out of proportion; don’t make it more than it is. By doing this, an explosion greater than the one by any bomb has been created. Every time some loser destroys something or belittles something else, drastic measures are almost always taken.

 In high school, administrators decided the best way to handle problems with students and guns would be to install metal detectors and to add police officers and drug dogs that patrol the hallways. This way, every student is a suspect and none of them is trusted.

That’s not the IVCC way. Police and IVCC investigators will catch this loser; they will solve the problem by punishing the offender and that’s it.

Others may be quick to judge IVCC’s response time in the situation. But according to Tom Martin, the Oglesby Police chief, it took 15 minutes to evacuate the building. With a reported 1,000 people inside, that’s pretty fast. Blowing up over that just wouldn’t make sense.

The bomb threat was a hoax, and a costly one at that. While it was costly in time and wasted money, the bomb threat wasn’t the beginning of the end.

The media and other parties are quick to judge the beginning of the end. The bomb threat isn’t a sign of a prospective Columbine. The type of person that instigated that type of tragedy wouldn’t be attending IVCC. That type of loser wouldn’t attend college.

Don’t blow this out of proportion. When the Columbine high school disaster erupted, the media was quick to hyperventilate and claimed that the average high school student feels unsafe when they go to class. This is college. Let’s be adults about this.