Gunshots, no injuries, reported at Villanova

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, November, 2007 | by STEPHANIE FARR farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225

A gunman marred a social tradition and put a college campus on alert yesterday morning when he fired numerous shots amid a crowd of people dispersing from a dance at Villanova University.

For years, the university has offered students alternative weekend activities to alcohol consumption under a program called Late Nite. The program, which runs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays, hosts comedians, bands and dances, and has gone off without a hitch since its inception - until yesterday.

As a Late Nite dance was letting out from the university's student-activities building, the Connelly Center, fights broke out, according to Liz Kennedy Walsh, associate vice president of university communications.

Shortly before 2:30 a.m., a young man in the school's...