With fake reports of shootings or “swatting” calls at Iowa State University on Monday, followed by the deadly mass shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday, some college students may be finishing this first week of classes feeling anxious.
Multiple campuses nationwide had swattings in recent days, and while there were none at the University of Iowa, UI senior Samantha Stewart tells KCRG-TV she’s nervous about looming violence on the Iowa City campus.
“I think about that kind of stuff on a daily basis,” Stewart says. “The T. Anne Cleary walkway is named after someone who died in a shooting. It’s absolutely something that worries me.” Cleary was one of the five victims of a 1991 shooting at the UI…