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Middlebury College students turn their backs to Charles Murray, unseen, who they call a white nationalist, during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt., Thursday, March 2, 2017. Hundreds of college students on Thursday protested a lecture by a speaker they call a white nationalist, forcing the college to move his talk to an undisclosed campus location from which it was live-streamed to the original venue but couldn't be heard above protesters' chants, feet stamping and occasional smoke alarms. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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Middlebury College students turn their backs to Charles Murray, who they call a white nationalist, during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt., Thursday, March 2, 2017. Hundreds of college students on Thursday protested the lecture, forcing the college to move his talk to an undisclosed campus location from which it was live-streamed to the original venue but couldn't be heard above protesters' chants, feet stamping and occasional smoke alarms. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 photo, Central Michigan guard Marcus Keene warms up before an NCAA college basketball game against Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. Keene, Central Michigan's scoring machine, has a chance to have college basketball’s highest scoring average since Charlie Jones put up 30-plus points a game 20 years ago at Long Island University. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 photo, Central Michigan University guard Marcus Keene leads his team out onto the court before an NCAA college basketball game against Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. Keene, Central Michigan's scoring machine, has a chance to have college basketball’s highest scoring average since Charlie Jones put up 30-plus points a game 20 years ago at Long Island University. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 photo, Central Michigan University guard Marcus Keene shoots during an NCAA college basketball game against Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. Keene, Central Michigan's scoring machine, has a chance to have college basketball’s highest scoring average since Charlie Jones put up 30-plus points a game 20 years ago at Long Island University. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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FILE- In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, school district attorney Alan Rupe, left, presents his arguments in a school funding case at the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka, Kan. Kansas' highest court on Thursday, March 2, 2017, ordered the state to increase its spending on public schools, which could further complicate the state's dire budget problems and increase pressure to undo large tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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University of Arizona president Ann Weaver Hart, left, chats with Dave Heeke before Heeke was introduced as the new athletic director at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Ariz., Thursday, March 2, 2017. (A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY MARCH 6, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In a Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Craig Hinden, a counselor at Longfellow Elementary School in Eau Claire, Wis., poses for a photo on the school playground. Hinden says the methamphetamine scourge is leaving children at risk. School administrators and staff, social services agencies and law enforcement officials in this part of the state report sharply rising meth use and arrests in recent years, resulting in the removal of more children from their homes when parents or guardians are incarcerated. (Dan Reiland/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram via AP)
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FILE - This file photo taken Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, shows the exterior of Brentwood High School in Brentwood, N.Y. where police were investigating the discovery of the remains of multiple Brentwood High School students in previous weeks. Federal agents said Thursday March 2, 2017, that they have caught the members of a violent El Salvadoran street gang who killed three teenagers last year, including two girls who were inseparable best friends at the high school. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman, File)
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Wake Forest students, players and fans celebrates after an NCAA college basketball game against Louisville in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Wake Forest won 88-81. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Wake Forest students and players celebrate after the team's NCAA college basketball game against Louisville in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Wake Forest won 88-81. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Notre Dame's Bonzie Colson (35) shoots a 3-pointer in front of Boston College's Jerome Robinson (1) and Mo Jeffers (15) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Robert Franklin)
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Notre Dame's V.J. Beachem (3) shoots a 3-pointer during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Robert Franklin)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, a woman is emotional following the Council Bluffs Community School District Board of Education's decision to vote down the district's proposal to close Crescent Elementary School, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Joe Shearer/ The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, Shawn Shea of Crescent, an opponent of the Council Bluffs Community School District's proposal to close Crescent Elementary School, hugs a fellow proponent of the school following the school board's decision to vote down the proposal, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Joe Shearer /The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, Michaela Fisher, center, her husband, Thomas, right, and others cheer after the Council Bluffs Community School District Board of Education voted down the district's proposal to close Crescent Elementary School during a meeting at the district's Educational Service Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Joe Shearer /The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, opponents of the Council Bluffs Community School District's proposal to close Crescent Elementary School pack the district's Educational Service Center during a school board meeting in Council Bluffs, Iowa. On a 5-2 vote, the school board voted down the district's proposal to close the elementary school in the small Pottawattamie County community that would have sent students to Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Council Bluffs. (Joe Shearer /The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, Shawn Shea of Crescent, an opponent of the Council Bluffs Community School District's proposal to close Crescent Elementary School, makes a plea to the school board to keep the school open during a meeting, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. On a 5-2 vote, the school board voted down the district's proposal to close the elementary school in the small Pottawattamie County community that would have sent students to Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Council Bluffs. (Joe Shearer /The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2016, file photo, an empty school reader board stands in front of the only school building in Dietrich, Idaho. The small community is struggling with the national attention brought by reports that a disabled black football player was raped by his white high school teammates. The allegations of racist taunts and physical abuse suffered by the teen were revealed this month when the family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Dietrich School District. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
