UNLV students want to know why the university took more than five days to warn the campus about a shooting threat targeting African-Americans and supporters of Bernie Sanders.
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Aleksandra joined the Review-Journal in June 2019 to cover higher education. She was previously the education reporter at the Fresno Bee in California, and prior to starting at the Bee, she got her master's in journalism from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
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