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Three Campus Security Scares On Tuesday

by Associated Press , February 27, 2008

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In Virginia, state police sent troopers to the rural Ferrum College campus, as well as officers from surrounding counties. The school, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, is less than 50 miles from Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, where a student gunman killed 32 people and committed suicide last April.

"Ever since Virginia Tech, we can't be careful enough," school spokeswoman Natalie Faunce said. "That's where we are."

More than 800 of the school's 1,000 students live on campus, and they were moved to a safe central location.

The lockdowns come less than two weeks after a gunman shot five students and then himself at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. Classes at the school resumed Monday.

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