After attacks, area colleges try to balance security, access
Officials to reevaluate their safety strategies
As authorities searched for the assailants in recent stabbings at two area colleges, college officials and security specialists said the attacks underlined the uneasy reality that even secluded campuses are susceptible to violence from outsiders and can reasonably do only so much to prevent it.
At Regis College in Weston, where an 18-year-old was stabbed to death Friday morning, campus police kept an around-the-clock watch on student dormitories and screened all visitors at the main entrance. Gates at two other entrances to the campus are being locked overnight. At Boston College, police stepped up
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