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UNC student newspaper front page displays community’s texts during school shooting and lockdown

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(CNN) � The entire front page of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, Wednesday displayed “text messages sent and received by UNC students,� during the hours-long lockdown on campus after one faculty member was murdered on Monday.

“We sat down on Monday night as a team,� the paper’s student print managing editor, Caitlyn Yaede, told CNN in a phone interview. “I said, we need to do something different; we need to do something that will really communicate to people the emotions we are feeling because that I think was most difficult to work through as students who live and work on this campus but also as student journalists who then have to serve that campus,� Yaede added.

The idea to compile text messages came from the paper’s Editor-in-Chief Emmy Martin, Yaede said.

On Tuesday, the paper’s staff began compiling texts from people on campus, such as “Are you safe?� “Where are you?� and “Are you alone?� that were sent during the lockdown the day before.

At UNC, at 1:02 p.m. ET Monday at the school’s Caudill Laboratories, and a suspect was taken into custody shortly after 2:30 p.m., Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said at a Monday evening news conference. The faculty member was later identified as the alleged shooter’s advisor.

Telling the story

Yaede explained: “We wanted to tell a story. And I think that the texts we have chosen and the texts that we have made the front cover of our paper today, tell a story of a community that is scared, and I think we communicate that scaredness in a lot of different ways. For some people it was expletives, for some people it was just an outpour of love and just checking in. But I think we told a story of a community that was startled, of a community that was scarred, and a community that is angry, and a community that is grieving,� Yaede said.

The paper reported that they ran out of copies of the print edition on campus. Yaede said that they plan to print a second run.

“Student journalists are in a unique spot where we are covering a community that we also live in and we also are feeling the emotions of. And I think we are here. We have a lot to give. We have a lot to share, and we have a lot to report on. And I would urge anyone who was moved by our front cover to read the rest of our coverage,� Yaede said.

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