CHRIS GIANCAMILLI
PRIDE STAFF WRITER

The Office of Communications sent an email out Oct. 25 warning students of a possible new safety risk when traveling abroad.

The U.S. State Department sent a worldwide notice to CSUSM’s Risk Management and Safety Office. Risk Management and Safety, RMS, handles hazardous materials, waste management, environmental concerns, safety concerns and Workers compensation.

The department distributed the official warning via emergencyemail.org.

The United States travel warning alerted students, faculty and staff to the possibility of “anti- U.S. actions.” The concern of terrorist activity stemmed from an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.

According to an official release from the Department of Justice, two men with ties to Iran were charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official and at least three more conspiracy charges. The release continued to say one conspirator, Manssor Arbabsiar, was captured Sept. 29 at JFK International Airport in New York after a failed attempt to fly out of the country. The other man remains at large.

The Foreign Travel Update from CSUSM advised students to review the campus’s Foreign Travel Insurance program at csusm.edu/ rms/. This program protects students, faculty and staff while they travel out of the United States on university sponsored trips by providing medical benefits, political evacuation benefits, trip cancellation or interruption benefits, accidental death benefits and travel assistant benefits.

According to the RMS website, travel assistant benefits include pre-departure information, lost baggage and passport aid, flight modifications, legal assistance and emergency cash.