Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Ray Hagar

Guests:
Marc Johnson, President, University of Nevada, Reno


"It is a very secure environment. One reason why we are not worried about security is that we're getting the whole tower and we will have control of security in the tower. We are moving a police substation of the University Police down to the tower, so that there will be a 24/7 presence with a police officer, a fully-trained police officer. And there will be two people at the front desk at all times, 24/7. So they will really control access to the rooms."

- Marc Johnson, University of Nevada president, on the safety of the newly renovated downtown Reno dormitory rooms in the west tower of the Circus-Circus Hotel & Casino. The university lost the use of dorm housing for about 1,300 students on campus recently because of a gas leak and explosion in an on-campus dormitory.