Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Murray State University

MSUKYPublic MastersRacerAlert~9,700 students

Cases: 6
Alerts: 13
Verbatim: 31%
Span: 1998–2026

Official alert policy

How MSU says it will alert — when and how RacerAlert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

6 cases · 4 of 13 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

bomb threat: 2026-01-12An Email at 12:56 PM, Eight Buildings Closed: Murray State Joins the January 2026 University-Library Bomb-Threat Waveemergency notificationverbatim

2022

hazmat: 2022-11-29A 'Chemical Leak' at Jones Hall Turns Out to Be a Small Explosionemergency notification

2021

2017

gas leak: 2017-06-28A Natural-Gas Blast Gutted the Ground Floor of New Richmond During Summer Break, and Only Summer Emptiness Kept It From Being Catastrophicemergency notification2 injuredverbatim

1998

fire: 1998-09-18Hard-to-Hear Alarms, a Burning Bulletin Board, and the Death That Created the Michael Minger Actadvisory1 killed · 5 injured

By incident type

What MSU has alerted about

Hazmat / Gas · 2 Active Shooter · 1 Bomb Threat · 1 Fire · 1 Weather · 1

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