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A law enforcement official searches the Paine College campus as it is on lockdown on Monday, May 5, 2014, in Augusta, Ga. The second shooting in two days at a Georgia college Monday left a student with a life-threatening gunshot wound to the head and prompted authorities to pledge to bolster security at the school. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle ,Jon-Michael Sullivan)
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Students at the Waseca Junior and Senior High School in Waseca, Minn., participate in outdoor activities, Monday, May 5, 2014. A 17-year-old classmate was arrested last week, charged with plotting an attack on the school in south-central Minnesota. (AP Photo/The Mankato Free Press, John Cross)
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Ho-Chunk Nation member Kim Ramirez, pictured in her rural Black River Falls, Wis. home, Friday, April 11, 2014, hopes the monetary payouts her three children will receive from the tribe after graduating high school will be better spent than the allocation she received when she was younger. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)
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With her daughter Deanna due to receive a large allocation of money from the Ho-Chunk Nation following graduation from high school, Kim Ramirez hopes her children will be smarter with the money than she was when she was younger. Deanna, now a sophomore, plans on attending college after graduating in 2016. They are pictured outside the school Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)
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Black River Falls High School sophomore Deanna Ramirez, 16, walks in school Friday, April 11, 2014. Ramirez is planning on attending college after she receives a traditional allocation of money made to Ho-Chunk Nation members after graduation from high school. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)
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Students in Professor Brad Hokanson's Creative Problem Solving class plan how they'll make Rube Goldberg machines Thursday, April 24, 2014 at the University of Minnesota. This class is also offered as a 7-week Massive Open Online Course, which includes video lectures and assignments to complete. The exercises are designed to encourage students to get out of their comfort zones and try new things. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Jennifer Simonson)
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Graphic Design Professor Brad Hokanson during his Creative Problem Solving class Thursday, April 24, 2014 at the University of Minnesota. Some of the class material, including video lectures and assignments, is available as a Massive Open Online Course. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Jennifer Simonson)
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This undated family photo shows Hong Yeng Chang. Chang was an Ivy League graduate thought to be the first Chinese-born, United States-trained lawyer when the California Supreme Court denied his application to practice law in a 1890 decision. Now, students at a Northern California law school hope to persuade the current court to reverse the 124-year-old decision that is still studied in law schools. (AP Photo/Chang Family)