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Hannah Frohling panicked when she woke up on Nov. 8 to a text message from one of her volleyball teammates.
"Is everybody alive?"
Overnight, a mass shooting at a country line dancing bar near the Pepperdine campus left 13 dead, including the gunman. She learned later in the day that a freshman at the school was among those killed.
Volleyball practice that Thursday afternoon became a respite from the emotions that had deflated the typically festive campus, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California. But something else loomed in the air, too.