This story is a collaboration between Capital B and Open Campus.
HAMPTON, Virginia — Just weeks into the start of the fall semester, Nick Jones was walking back to his Hampton University dorm when he got an alert that the campus was on lockdown.
“Yo … should I be outside?” he thought to himself, but really, he was only slightly concerned. It was a terroristic threat the day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on a college campus more than 2,000 miles away at Utah State University…