Starting at 8 am Tuesday morning, UTEP will conduct an active shooter emergency exercise on campus.  The exercise will run through 1 pm.UTEP officials stress that it is ONLY AN EXERCISE, and was scheduled days before the active shooter incident at Texas A&M on Monday.  The exercise will be conducted at Memorial Triangle Lawn, inside the Geological Sciences Building,  on Dormitory Road, and in half of the parking lot east of the Liberal Arts Building.  Law enforcement and emergency response personnel and vehicles may be visible in these areas, and the area around Cotton Memorial may also be affected.  Faculty, staff, students and visitors on campus at that time are asked to avoid these areas.   For more information, go to KVIA.com.

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