Panel Recommends Policy Changes at U. of Idaho in Wake of 2 Deaths

In a report released today, an independent panel appointed to review safety procedures at the University of Idaho in the wake of an apparent murder-suicide there last August said that the university’s procedures for dealing with high-risk situations should be streamlined and that communication between the institution and the police should be more open.

M. Duane Nellis, the university’s president, appointed the panel—comprising three people outside the university, including a former Idaho Supreme Court judge—after the incident, in which Ernesto A. Bustamante, a former psychology professor at Idaho, is suspected of gunning down a graduate student and then killing himself three days after he resigned from the university. The student, Kathryn Benoit, had complained that Mr. Bustamante had sexually harassed her and held a loaded gun to her head.