More students are reporting suspicious behavior to police than before, and the text-message crime alert system they established by the university after the massacre is widely used. Students have reported nearly twice as many suspicious incidents to university police over the past year, said police Lt. Robert Mueck. Police estimated they received about eight calls of reported threats the week after the Virginia Tech shooting.

Thirty-one students involved in a daylong sit-in to demand the university sign onto an anti-sweatshop labor program were arrested and charged with criminal trespass after refusing to leave Old Main when it closed at 5 p.m.

Only time will tell if the murders of students had anything to do with Madison’s homeless communities. But simmering beneath the surface is an uncomfortable reality: In recent months, the vagabonds of downtown have grown increasingly prevalent and aggressive.

In order to seemingly provide a safer learning environment for everyone, we run the risk of alienating students by discriminating against medical conditions that should remain private.

University of Utah law professor Peter Stirba will argue a case before the United States Supreme Court in the fall that he said will set a precedent for civil rights and search and seizure cases.

Thieves stole cameras, memory cards, iPods and cash valuing $4000 to $5000 frojm Texas A&M Aggies students during an overnight train from Krakow, Poland, to Prague, Czech Republic. The first student to notice had been listening to her iPod while sleeping and awoke to find it gone.