Update – Missouri Western State University has canceled both its afternoon and evening classes after a campus-wide power outage Tuesday.

Power was lost all across campus around noon According to Kent Heier, Assistant Dir. of PR and Marking at Western. By 5:09 p.m. Tuesday power was restored to most of the campus.

In the latest update, Heier said the outage appears to have been caused by a faulty high voltage switch.

The power outage was just contained to the university campus.