Protests at the besieged Gallaudet University took a turn for the worse Friday when someone phoned in a bomb threat.

It wasn’t clear if the threat came in on a voice line or a special text line for the deaf, but the message was clear: “There’s a bomb on your campus,” said Gallaudet University spokeswoman Mercy Coogan.

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