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As stories about school violence grab headlines across the nation, universities are reassessing their safety policies, searching for new ways to get urgent messages to students.

Two retired FBI profilers and a former Secret Service psychologist say the man responsible for Brianna Denison’s murder is likely to strike again – and will continue until he is caught.

But to what degree and where he’ll commit his next crime is too hard to tell as the Reno community continues to search for him.

“What may change is where it’s occurring and who the victims are,” said Gregg McCrary, 58, a former FBI profiler who now runs a Fredericksburg, Va., consulting company, Behavioral Criminology International. “Usually they don’t stop by their own volition. They usually have to be stopped by outside law enforcement.”

Hundreds of people came to a candle light vigil Friday night at the sight where Brianna Denison’s strangled body was found a week ago.

People held flickering candles and blue carnations – Denison’s favorite color – to pay their respects to the 19-year-old Santa Barbara City College student who was abducted from a house two blocks away from the University of Nevada, Reno on Jan. 20.

A celebration of Denison’s life will follow Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

Police are still searching for a man who hit a 24-year-old University of Nevada, Reno student with his car.
Police said they could not release any details on the status of the student, who was taken to the Renown Medical Center with major injuries at the time of the accident Feb. 9.
The accident is still under open investigation.

Senior Editor Garrett Hylton and Editor in chief Brian Duggan give their asinine thoughts on the romantic comedy.

The service, which runs seven days a week, is fielding about 150 to 200 calls per night – about 100 more calls than normal. On Feb. 5, students were experiencing more than an hour-long delay for a ride.

The influx of calls is part of the reason why students have been getting busy tones instead of a Campus Escort dispatcher lately.“I’ve had five-minute phone calls and I’ve missed 10 calls,” said Charlie Goldner, a 25-year-old biology-chemistry major and dispatcher for Campus Escort.

The service, which runs seven days a week, is fielding about 150 to 200 calls per night – about 100 more calls than normal. On Feb. 5, students were experiencing more than an hour-long delay for a ride.

Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said he is disappointed the University of Nevada, Reno withdrew its bid last year for a major presidential debate that would have taken place this fall.

Students and faculty filled the Joe Crowley Student Union theater Feb. 6 to watch the first-ever panel for the Jim Joyce Endowment on Political Communications.

The three panelists talked about the impact of the primary debates on the presidential nomination.

Participating was Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates; Anjeanette Damon, a Reno Gazette-Journal political reporter; and Jon Ralston, a Las Vegas Sun political pundit.

Frank Fahrenkopf, a University of Nevada, Reno alum and co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said he’s disappointed UNR withdrew its bid for a general election presidential debate last year.

Fahrenkopf participated in the first-ever panel discussion for the Jim Joyce Endowment in Political Communications, which included Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Anjeanette Damon and Las Vegas Sun pundit Jon Ralston.

The first-ever panel discussion for the Jim Joyce Endowment in Political Communications is this Wednesday, which will discuss the impact of debates on the presidential nomination process.

The event will also mark Jerry Ceppos’s first public appearance as the newly-appointed Reynolds School of Journalism dean.

University of Nevada, Reno director of police Adam Garcia is one of five finalists for the vacant Clark County School District police chief post, a CCSD official said Friday.

“He was a competitive applicant; the fact is we’re right on the threshold of making the decision,” said Craig Kadlub, chief of staff for CCSD Superintendent Walt Rulffes.