Backpack? Check. Laptop? Check. Handgun? Check.

More and more colleges and universities are removing restrictions against concealed carry by their students (from Sensibly Progressive):

The Brady Campaign has been bragging about how they've kept people from being empowered to defend themselves on college campuses, apparently buoyed by the success of these policies at VTI, NIU, etc. (yeah - that was sarcasm). But while there hasn't been much legislative success on this issue there have been positive developments on the judicial level, right here in my own state of Colorado. In fact, Daniel Crocker of Concealed Campus.org reports that the success of the court case against the University of Colorado's (CU) anti-gun policy not only led Colorado State University (CSU) to drop their gun ban, but also influenced "the fourteen colleges in the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) voted to rescind their current ban and allow any licensed adult with a concealed carry permit to exercise that right while on campus."

There's a lot of background information at the link. Bottom line is, in the wake of some violent incidents such as the Virginia Tech shootings, other campuses are realizing that it's better to have some good people with guns on campus instead of just the bad guys and a handful of cops.