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DURHAM -
Duke University will begin testing its new emergency alarm system this week.A series of alarms will sound today between 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. and for much of the day Thursday as Duke officials work out the kinks in a new campus emergency notification system, part of the institution's reaction to last year's shootings at Virginia Tech.Campus officials at Duke and universities across the nation have scrambled in the last year to update and improve the way they notify students and staff in emergencies.At Duke this week, sirens will sound intermittently, and people on campus and in surrounding neighborhoods may hear loud tones and live or recorded messages.
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