On November 13, 2025, St. John's University evacuated the D'Angelo Center (DAC) on its Queens campus following a bomb threat received Thursday afternoon. A text alert went out to the campus community at 3:54 p.m. EST instructing people to avoid the area, and the building was swept by Public Safety in coordination with the NYPD.
2 messages in sequence · 1 verified verbatim
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To check this alert, Claude (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.
Police Activity Near The D'Angelo Building. Please Avoid The Area.
Final assessment
Unanimous: no sender, agency, or branded signature identifies who issued the message.
Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.
Final assessment
Unanimous: the alert says only Police Activity and names no specific hazard.
What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.
Final assessment
All reads agree on a specific location, near the DAngelo Building.
Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.
Final assessment
Unanimous: the alert instructs recipients to avoid the area, a protective action.
The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.
Final assessment
Unanimous: no clock time, date, or recency cue appears, so timing is absent.
When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.
Final assessment
Absent by unanimous agreement; the message reports police activity near a building and to avoid the area but states no hazard consequence, harm, or danger.
What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.
Systematic AI judgments with visible reasoning, not human-validated codings.
About this analysisCampus Alert Archive. "St. John's University: Bomb threat empties the D'Angelo Center; determined to be unfounded." Incident of November 13, 2025. Added May 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/st-johns-university-bomb-threat-2025-11-13/
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