December, 2006

Security Screening Blocks Admission

After the deaths of two University of North Carolina- Wilmington students, the entire UNC system adopted a program of increased scrutiny of applications. Both student murders took place in late Spring 2004. One murderer, a student, had lied on his admissions application. The second killer was a student expelled when officials found out about his criminal past. In the wake of these deaths, state lawmakers introduced legislation requiring criminal background checks on all new students, but it never got out of legislative committees.

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