Law Schools

Students Are Last To Know When Gunmen Reported On Campus

Would you want to know if there was an anonymous (later revealed to be unfounded) tip about gunmen in your law school?

There might be two students that is [sic] going to enter into Ave Maria School of Law with machine guns… I don’t want my teachers to be jeopardized.

— An anonymous caller on Friday to the Collier County Sheriff’s Department reporting what turned out to be an unfounded threat. Though the Law School activated its emergency notification protocol, students were surprised to learn the threat involved gunmen… since the school failed to mention that detail. Dean Kevin Ceiply defended his decision to not overreact, saying that he did not feel the threat was imminent since no specific date or time was associated with the tip.