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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Students raise concerns about emergency notification system after gun scare

Students raise concerns about emergency notification system after gun scare

March 16, 2018

Reports of a gunman on Northwestern’s Evanston campus sent students into a nearly two-hour panic Wednesday, as they rushed to take shelter after University emergency notification alerts told people to...

Officers respond to the scene outside Engelhart Hall at Emerson Street and Maple Avenue.

Police find man and girlfriend who were subject of hoax gun threat call safe

March 15, 2018

Police have not yet identified the person who called Evanston police yesterday and claimed to have shot his girlfriend in Engelhart Hall. The man who called in gave a name of a real person and the...

Letter to the Editor: Thanking Norris staff for response to campus gun scare

March 15, 2018

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the staff of Norris University Center for its response to the security alerts Wednesday. As I walked into Norris and up to Starbucks, I saw dozens of students...

Officers respond to the scene outside Engelhart Hall at Emerson Street and Maple Avenue.

Students recount shock at ‘surreal’ gun scare on campus

March 14, 2018

Medill sophomore Gabrielle Bienasz spent her Wednesday morning marching with hundreds of other students to honor the victims of the school shooting last month in Parkland, Florida, and advocating for gun...

Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew.

Reports of man with gun on campus determined to be hoax, “swatting incident”

March 14, 2018

Update, 4:42 p.m.: University Chief of Police Bruce Lewis said in an email at 4:34 that the campus was "all clear." Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew told reporters Wednesday afternoon that reports of...

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