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After meeting yesterday with University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III, Gov. Bob McDonnell this morning reiterated his intention to consider possible changes in state law in the wake of the killing of a female lacrosse player at the school.

“We’re having our staff look at what legal changes we might make in the General Assembly next year,” McDonnell told George Stephanopoulos today on ABC’s Good Morning America.

He said a full review is being done on campus. When asked if he is confident that school officials did all they could do, he said “there’s still things that are going on now, George, that we’re learning.”

Casteen said on Tuesday, after his meeting with McDonnell, that if the school had known about a previous run-in with law enforcement by the men’s lacrosse player charged in the murder of Yeardley Love, the information “would have lit our system.”

Casteen said he would have wanted to know about student George Huguely’s arrest in late 2008 in Lexington, during which “He said, ‘I’ll kill you. I’ll kill all of y’all. I’m not going to jail,‘“ a police officer told the Washington Post.

He said if school officials find out about students who do such things, they face suspension. “In any event, I would like to know one of my students has threatened to kill a police officer,” he said.

During the lunch meeting, McDonnell said, Casteen suggested ways laws can change regarding the reporting of previous acts of violence or criminal convictions so college presidents have more information in deciding whether to take action under honor or disciplinary codes.

“I assured him that’s something that we will look into to see if statutory changes are warranted or other court or police procedures might be changed to help presidents manage their student body better.“ 

Which is more probative of whether a student is a danger to other students: a physical assault on a fellow student and lacrosse team member sleeping in his bed, or resisting arrest for disorderly conduct off-campus?

Both are wrong, but the assault on the student was apparently known by the Lacrosse coach and unbelievably, President Casteen has YET to conduct an investigation of that incident, expressing only support for the coach. What is he waiting for? Sounds like UVA needs an independent investigation into this, and the governor (and the Richmond Times Dispatch) should focus on this lapse.

Casteen should stop putting the blame on his lack of knowledge of the police incident and focus on something he has total control over….threats and violence by one student against another, especially when known by faculty or administrators. Don’t be surprised if UVA gets sued for failure to suspend Huguely for his prior on-campus incidents. (Also, Casteen today could require students to self-report any off-campus arrests when they register each semester or something similar…failure to do so could result in suspension, or even revocation of degree if found out later)

Sounds like a waste of time… The POLICE have better things to do than call a University about a drunk college kid…. move on Gov. to something more important like jobs and raises for POLICE and DEPUTIES…

Casteen looks like a moose wiith his eyes in the head lights. How long must we put up with the political appointees as presidents of our universities?
Alcoholism is rampart at U. Va. and there is little or no leadership in making the place safe. It was just a few monthhs ago that a Va Tech student lost her life while attending a concert at U. Va. Why has not U. Va taken a leading role in finding the killer of that young woman from
Roanoke? She was at a concert full of college students at U. Va. and was killed and yet there is no progress in finding out. I would think that Casteen would be better off dealing with these issues rather than being on the board of a tobacco company bent on selling cigarettes to kids all around the world.

Ah yes… All the stigma of being guilty while not having been tried.

And, if the student is acquitted?  While the court be responsible for apologizing?