Casting aside a longtime prohibition, campus libraries are choosing to welcome snackers, as long as they're tidy. A cafe across from the circulation desk at the Morningside College library (above), in Sioux City, Iowa, provides food and drinks that students can carry into the stacks. (Photograph from Morningside College)

Virginia Tech, One Year Later

• Campaigns to Overrule Campus Gun Bans Have Failed in Many States
• University Has Begun Acting on Hundreds of Recommendations
• Commentary: Guns Don't Belong in the Hands of Administrators, Professors, or Students

Nerds With Nerf Guns Strike Raw Nerves

Families of Virginia Tech Victims Settle With State

Bill Would Set a Deadline for Campus Alerts

A University Bets on Swanky Suites to Attract More Students

Reporters' Notebook: Talks at the Community Colleges' Meeting

THE TALK OF 2-YEAR COLLEGES: At the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges, campus leaders discussed the growing pressures they face, the newest of which is their states' budget deficits.