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FINGERPRINT BILL: A North Carolina senator has introduced legislation to require fingerprinting and criminal-background checks for all students enrolling at the state’s 16 public universities, beginning in the fall of 2007. Prospective students could be charged for the background checks, which, under the legislation, would be conducted by the state’s Bureau of Investigation or the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2004 two female students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington were stalked and killed by fellow students who had concealed their troubled pasts. But a lawyer for the university system questioned whether the background checks would reveal much information because all juvenile records are sealed.
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