By Sunday afternoon, the October skies above St. Jude had cleared into a sharp, brittle azure, but the atmosphere across the university had turned freezing and paranoid. Outside the main iron gates on Commonwealth Avenue, three campus police cruisers stood with their engines idling, officers in neon-yellow tactical vests stopping delivery vans and spot-checking student identification badges. A banner across the university portal read: *'NOTICE: Security Telemetry Audit in Progress.…
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