When campus alarms cry wolf: The mental toll of false active shooter alerts at Villanova and South Carolina
In the previous week, Villanova University was plunged into chaos twice in just a few days when back-to-back active shooter alerts triggered lockdowns, evacuations, and widespread panic—only to be declared false alarms. Recently, the University of South Carolina faced a similar ordeal after a viral video wrongly identified a man holding an umbrella as a…