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Five incidents of swatting college campuses drawing concern Alan Wooten August 26, 2025 August 25, 2025

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(The Center Square) – Four times since Thursday major college campuses along the Atlantic Seaboard have been brought to a halt.

Four times, they’ve all been a hoax, or what is generally known as swatting.

Campus leaders in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and South Carolina express gratitude the calls were false, and they’re trying to figure out next steps. At least one of two at Villanova University in Philadelphia was a call that came from off campus.

FBI detectives are involved, according to published reports from near the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Chancellor Lori Bruce, in a letter

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