Nevada’s Board of Regents has shot down a proposal to arm faculty and staff members as an auxiliary police force.
One regent, Stavros S. Anthony, had proposed the special unit shortly after the Virginia Tech shootings, and the board had asked the university system’s campus police chiefs to draft a plan to allow some faculty and staff members to carry concealed weapons on their campuses. Under the proposal, interested instructors would have been required to attend a 21-week police academy and to undergo psychological and background screening.
The proposal was initially approved by a Board of Regents committee on Thursday, but was rejected by the board on Friday by a vote of 8 to 5, according to The Rebel Yell, the student newspaper at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. —Karin Fischer
