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Cop Shoots Gunman Near Berkeley Protests

Rob Quinn — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:00:00 CST

As students and demonstrators began to gather at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday, a police officer shot an armed man inside a business computer lab on the other side of campus. Police say the suspect, who was taken to a local hospital for surgery, was shot after he...

UVa. Student Murdered by Boyfriend: Cops

M. Morris — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:37:00 CDT

A University of Virginia student has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, who was found in her Charlottesville apartment early this morning. Yeardley Love and George Huguely, both 22, played on UVa.'s highly ranked lacrosse teams, the Daily Progress reports. Police responding to a...

Threat to Kill Blacks Rattles Ohio College

Rob Quinn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:20:00 CST

A technical college in southern Ohio is on high alert after a threat to kill black students on Feb. 2 was found scrawled on a bathroom wall. Hocking College has stepped up security and offered to relocate students too scared to stay in the dorm where the threat was found....

Football Players Key Bloody Dorm Melee at Michigan St.

Will McCahill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:48:23 CST

Two Michigan State football players are off the team tonight after an incident Sunday in which they and as many as 20 fellow Spartans, many wearing ski masks, stormed a dorm and beat fellow students, including women. “I walked up and said, ‘It isn’t worth it,’” one student tells...

USC Student Fatally Stabbed in Neighborhood Attack

Rob Quinn — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:58:40 CDT

USC students are demanding the university beef up security after a film student was fatally stabbed yesterday in a neighborhood attack, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Idaho native was killed after an argument with a man in an apartment complex near the LA campus. A wave of anxiety has...

Students Aren't Signing Up for Text Alert Systems

Caroline Zimmerman — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:15:09 CST

Campus shootings keep making headlines, and schools are increasingly adopting text message alert systems as a response—but students aren't jumping on the bandwagon, the AP reports. Experts chalk up low enrollment rates to students' sense of invincibility, unwillingness to reveal personal information and the cost of receiving texts. "It...

NIU Shooter Delved Into Satanism

John Johnson — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:55:00 CST

The shooter in the NIU carnage that left five students dead last week began to exhibit troubling signs of mental illness as a high school student as he explored satanism and white-power movements, reports AP. Steven Kazmierczak "started to identify more with hatred-type stuff," said a friend. His behavioral problems...