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our community members, faculty staff and students to certainly see something and say something and make certain that we can always respond to these in the most conscientious manner. that is patrice bell of the xavier that is patrice bell of the xavier university - that is patrice bell of the xavier university of - that is patrice bell of the - xavier university of louisiana talking xavier university of louisiana talking to xavier university of louisiana talking to me xavier university of louisiana talking to me earlier. - let s get some of the day s other news. the pharmaceutical company johnson &johnson and three major us drug distributors have agreed to pay about $600 million to settle lawsuits by native american communities devastated by the opioid crisis. the companies have not admitted wrongdoing, but the settlement will speed up the process of distributing funds. tonga is imposing a covid lockdown after the pacific island nation, which had been virus free, recorded two cas
now to the us. the white house has condemned a spate of bomb threats against a number of historically black colleges. the threats, made to more than a dozen universities and schools in cities from baltimore to new orleans, began on the first day of black history month in the united states. patrice bell is vice president and chief of staff at xavier university of louisiana. she explained what her institution and others are doing in response. we work together as a collective, all of the different hbcus consider ourselves sibling institutions. we collaborate together to support each other, we advocate for investments and security infrastructure for our campuses and we actually, as an hbcu, as a black and catholic institution, xavier specifically has been on the forefront of reconciliatory conversations and we have to approach all of this with the spirit of love and healing and reaching out to those actors who have some ill intent
to be vigilant around those campuses. that is david willis with the general picture. patrice bell is vice president and chief of staff at xavier university of louisiana, and shejoins me now from new orleans. thank you very much indeed for joining us. perhaps first of all tell us what you had to go through over the last 2a hours, because it was quite an ordeal. certainly, early in the morning on the first of february, we received a bomb threat that caused us to go into an emergency lockdown. we evacuated students who in quadrant of campus that were impacted by the threat, and we did have them shelter in place in a cleararea did have them shelter in place in a clear area in their residential facilities. you were dealing residential facilities. you were dealing with - residential facilities. you were dealing with that i residential facilities. you were dealing with that in j residential facilities. you were dealing with that in the middle of the night, though? yes, we were. it was in th