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• MIT campus police killed in campus shooting

  April 19, 2013 12:41 AM

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Authorities say a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died from injuries in a shooting on the campus outside Boston. Cambridge police and the Middlesex District Attorney's office says the officer was responding to a report of a disturbance when he was... more »

• 'Gun dorms' attract 0 students at CU campuses

  November 25, 2012 10:50 AM

  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Colorado's new segregated "gun dorms" for students with valid concealed-carry permits have attracted zero students. The Daily Camera newspaper reports that since the University of Colorado's Boulder and Colorado Springs campuses began segregating dorms for students with valid concealed-carry permits this year, not a single student... more »

• State Supreme Court considers campus gun bans

  June 8, 2011 11:09 AM

  DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether campus gun bans are legal. The Colorado Court of Appeals in April ruled in favor of a gun-rights group that sued the University of Colorado, arguing that a 1994 university policy banning concealed weapons violates state gun laws.... more »

• CSU-Pueblo receives threat, warns campus to be alert

  March 8, 2011 12:58 PM

  CSU-Pueblo is asking students and staff to be more alert about suspicious activity. The university found a bomb threat letter in the student center, which reported an incident might take place on Wednesday. However, the university says at this time it doesn't believe there is any imminent threat to safety.... more »

• CU considers tuition guarantee for Colo. students

  January 16, 2011 12:57 PM

  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - University of Colorado regents plan to explore the idea of guaranteeing in-state students on the campus in Boulder that their tuition won't rise over four years. The Camera newspaper reports that regents plan to delve deeper into the idea next month. CU already offers a... more »

• State Supreme Court agrees to hear guns on campus arguments

  December 20, 2010 7:37 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A group that opposes guns on campus filed an argument with the Colorado Supreme Court urging the justices to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to give students the right to carry firearms at colleges. The Washington, D.C.-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence said in a... more »

• Suspect arrested in shooting on CSU campus

  September 24, 2010 4:22 PM

  Police have arrested a man suspected of shooting and wounding another man in a parking lot at Colorado State University's Fort Collins campus. CSU Police say Shameek Jamal Bernard Lewis, 20, of Aurora was arrested at a Fort Collins motel early Friday on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder and... more »

• A week without Facebook? College tries it out

  September 16, 2010 11:05 AM

  A tiny university in central Pennsylvania is making waves with a bold experiment: blacking out social media for a week. That means students and staff at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology can't access Facebook, Twitter or a host of other social networks while on campus. Provost... more »

• Air Force Academy campus named one of world's most beautiful

  September 13, 2010 7:40 PM

  Forbes magazine lists the Air Force Academy as one of the most beautiful in the world. Kevin Lippert, publisher of the Princeton Architectural Press, which publishes the prestigious Campus Guide series, put the Academy, at number 8. Lippert called the campus, which was built in the 1950s, "a tour... more »

• Man shot on CSU campus in Fort Collins

  September 8, 2010 9:56 AM

  Authorities are investigating a shooting at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. CSU says a man was shot in the arm early Wednesday morning after being approached by a teen or young man for drugs. The victim isn't a student. He drove to Broomfield after the shooting and reported... more »

• Brady Center weighs in on guns on campus issue

  June 30, 2010 3:29 PM

  The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a friend of the court brief in the Colorado Supreme Court Wednesday in support of the University of Colorado's efforts to keep guns off campus. The University is seeking review by the Colorado Supreme Court of a lower court ruling allowing a... more »

• Supreme Court rules on Christian campus group

  June 28, 2010 2:30 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The acting chancellor and dean of a California law school is praising a Supreme Court decision, saying it validates the school's policy of "equity and fairness." An ideologically split court ruled, 5-4, that the University of California's Hastings College of the Law can legally deny recognition... more »

• Concealed weapons allowed on some college campuses

  May 13, 2010 6:00 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Concealed weapons will be allowed on 13 community college campuses in Colorado. Administrators of the state community college system decided Monday to repeal its policy banning concealed weapons from campuses in response to an April 15 court ruling against a similar ban on University of Colorado... more »

• Update: PPCC Centennial Campus alert was false alarm

  May 7, 2010 2:26 PM

  Pikes Peak Community College Centennial Campus was on heightened alert because of reports of a man with a gun late Friday morning. It appears that a man was seen heading to the bookstore on campus with a gun in a holster strapped to his leg. Campus police ordered shelter... more »

• Colorado State rescinds gun ban after court ruling

  May 5, 2010 4:49 PM

  Guns and some other weapons will continue to be legal on the Colorado State University System's two campuses. The CSU Board of Governors voted Wednesday to rescind a campus gun ban, citing a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling last month that overturned a similar ban at the University of... more »

• Court appears to split sharply on campus Christian argument

  April 19, 2010 12:31 PM

  Supreme Court justices seemed to split sharply on whether a law school can legally deny recognition to a Christian student group because it won't let gays or non-Christians join. The court heard arguments from the Christian Legal Society, which wants recognition from the Hastings College of the Law. Lower... more »

• Appeals Court hears arguments on CU gun ban

  March 23, 2010 12:04 PM

  The Colorado Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a lawsuit by a gun rights organization challenging the University of Colorado's ban on guns on campus. The Students for Concealed Carry on Campus will appear Tuesday to argue that a 1994 CU policy banning concealed weapons from its campus violates... more »

• Pueblo West residents want rec facility built

  March 12, 2010 12:05 PM

  Community members in Pueblo West want to create a center that offers recreational programs to the public. Rebecca Kaspari says the group has received 21 acres of donated land, located near McCulloch Blvd. Kaspari says the group wants to build a 17,000 sq. ft. building, a playground area, shade structures... more »

• CSU board votes to ban concealed weapons

  February 23, 2010 11:28 AM

  The Colorado State University Board of Governors voted to ban concealed weapons at CSU-Pueblo and CSU Ft. Collins campuses, effective Aug. 1. This goes against the wishes of students. Last month, student governments at both universities voted to oppose the ban. However, faculty members voted in favor of the ban.... more »

• Sex offender ordered off CSU campus

  February 2, 2010 11:01 AM

  A sex offender living in an on-campus apartment at Colorado State University has been ordered to leave. Twenty-one-year-old Thomas "TJ" Skillman has to leave the apartment by the end of the week. He's been living with his girlfriend and their child in the CSU-owned University Village apartments. Skillman is not... more »

• CSU-Pueblo students split over concealed weapons debate

  January 19, 2010 5:58 PM

  The debate over carrying concealed weapons on campus heats up in Pueblo. The Colorado State University Board of Governors will decide in February whether to ban concealed weapons at CSU-Pueblo and CSU Ft. Collins. Right now, they're allowed on both campuses. On Monday, student governments at the two universities voted... more »

• Parkview hospital goes smoke free in new year

  December 31, 2009 2:42 PM

  In Pueblo, Parkview Medical Center has made a new year's resolution to become a smoke free campus. Starting on January 1, smoking will be prohibited anywhere on the hospital's campus, including in parking lots, sidewalks, alleyways and greenways around the hospital. Parkview says it was the right time to make... more »

• Potential jobs close to campus good for UCCS

  November 3, 2009 5:57 PM

  Some see a place to shop or get a bite to eat, while others eye the new retail development on North Nevada in Colorado Springs as a job opportunity. That's especially true right across the street at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Close to 70% of students... more »