A study examining the history of mass violence on college campuses has found more than half of the attacks have happened in the past 20 years, reports The Washington Post’s Dan De Vise. The report, a joint effort by the Secret Service, the FBI, and the federal Department of Education, was written in the wake of the shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 people. Of the 272 attacks the report examined, 79 occurred in the 1990s and 83 occurred between 2000 and 2008.
Quick hits
- Gov. Martin O’Malley will officially announce his re-election campaign next Tuesday, April 27.
- The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting that Virginia law enforcement officials raided the offices of James Madison University’s student newspaper, The Breeze, and seized 900 photos. The raid was related to a riot that occurred at Springfest, an annual JMU event at which 42 people were injured and 30 were arrested.
- The College Republicans at Duke are ousting their leader, and he says it’s because he’s gay, The Duke Chronicle reports.
- Colleges should be required to reveal the number of judicial hearings they have on sexual assaults each year and those hearings’ outcomes, activists said at a congressional hearing Friday, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.