Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Colleges boost security, consider limits following series of attacks - The Boston Globe

Colleges boost security, consider limits following series of attacks - The Boston Globe

After attacks, area colleges try to balance security, access

Officials to reevaluate their safety strategies

By Peter Schworm and Milton Valencia
Globe Staff / September 28, 2010
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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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