Under Pressure to Give Speedy Crime Alerts, Campus Officials Worry About the Information's Usefulness

By ERIC HOOVER and SARA LIPKA

At the University of Chicago, the third Monday in November began with an hour of violence. Around 12:30 a.m., an assailant fired a shot at a staff member who was walking on the campus. At 1:15, a group of men robbed two female students on a nearby street. Several blocks away, just before...