Oregon colleges stick with policy of no guns on campus

By Staff writer

"Oregon's state universities have no plans to drop their policy against carrying weapons on campus, including holders of concealed handgun licenses."

"That's the gist of a letter Ryan James Hagemann, a lawyer for the Oregon University System, sent state legislators on Tuesday from Portland."

"The issue came to a head last winter, when a student from Lebanon was detained at Western Oregon University for having a pistol and a knife, then suspended for the rest of the school year for having the knife in a pocket and a rifle in his parked truck. ..."

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