this campus, jim. no question. when the threat is removed. joe johns there in charlottesville, thank you so much. another campus tragedy. university of idaho dealing with one this morning after four students were found dead yesterday at a house on campus there. police say this is a homicide investigation. classes there canceled today as well. cnn s martin savidge joins us live with details. martin, police are not saying a whole lot about this. what do we know right now? yeah, university officials and police are both being very careful about the information that is being released here. there fact they have even referred to it as a suspected homicides here. so there is a sense of the ambiguity we re dealing with here. we know that police in moscow, idaho, were called to a home off campus, about a block away from the university of idaho. where they found four people. the initial call was there was a person unconscious when they got
african-american who s been accepted into a traditionally white fraternity or sorority. how have these sororities defended this practice? how have they justified this? really the defense that s been used in every case pretty much has been that it s a private organization. and that therefore it has the right to make its own the right to make its own admissions decisions. do you have a greek row on campus? we do. and so they re housed on campus? they re house on campus. at a state school. at a state school. i know. that s my argument. don t they have any lawyers down there? [ laughter ] also greek life is an important part of campus life, correct? tremendously so. right. so not being a part of it is a significant thing. it s not like a school where it s not a big deal. i mean, it blows my mind that this is going on. it blows my mind nobody has done anything. are there all black sororities?
actually the only african-american who s been accepted into a traditionally white fraternity or sorority. how have these sororities defended this practice? how have they justified this? really the defense that s been used in every case pretty much has been that it s a private organization. and that therefore it has the right to make its own the right to make its own admissions decisions. do you have a greek row on campus? we do. and so they re housed on campus? they re house on campus. at a state school. at a state school. i know. that s my argument. don t they have any lawyers down there? [ laughter ] also greek life is an important part of campus life, correct? tremendously so. right. so not being a part of it is a significant thing. it s not like a school where it s not a big deal. i mean, it blows my mind that this is going on. it blows my mind nobody has done anything. are there all black
if the news, if the university wanted to force him out, joe paterno is not going to necessarily be pushed. i mean he would be allowed to make this announcement in whatever way he chose, don t you suppose? yes, i do think so. jon: you are a penn state grad. our news . jon: you re a penn state grad yourself? i am. i am. jon: what is the reaction, what is the reaction now? we saw this show of support last night. joe paterno basically lives in a house on campus. all kinds of students out there last night surrounding him, showing support. the fact that he is resigning now, what s the reaction? retiring, i should say, yes. well, i think the reaction, the reaction is really mixed. i think there s a lot of sadness. he s had such a storied career at penn state. he had such a great, he has had a great football program there and i think a lot of
take her to the hospital. there have been protests and 5b8s of vandalism at the fraternity. charlottesville police are investigating. the reporter in an attempt to she knew the ringleader drew to be a life guard at the campus pool. whenever you re using anonymous sources and almost everyone in the story is anonymous, you know the perpetrator, the skrikt victim anonymous, it is incumbent upon you to go the extra mile to contact the people you have accusing of a terrible, terrible crime. reporter: the president of the university responded we have no knowledge of these alleged acts being committed at any house on campus. there was no party at the frat house on the date alleged and to the pledge ceremony reported to have happened that autumn day