Early this morning officials issued an alert for a possible armed man on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus, but police officials gave the all-clear after no threat was found. Reports of active shooters and campus lockdowns are beginning to become routine at US colleges and universities in recent months. Many, like this one, turn out to be false alarms, leaving schools and students with the delicate challenge of coping with the emotional strain of repeated alerts without becoming so complacent following false alarms that students and faculty do not respond appropriately to confirmed threats.

December 2, 2015 ・ From Christian Science Monitor