BATON ROUGE -- LSU is down to three candidates to be its next president. One of those candidates is former University of Arizona president Robert Robbins, who spoke to LSU students, staff, and faculty on Friday to share his vision for the university.

Robbins served as Arizona's president for seven years, but his last few years were marked with controversy.

In 2022, Arizona professor Thomas Meixner was murdered by former student Murad Dervish. Dervish had already been banned from campus before the tragedy.

Robbins said he takes full responsibility for failing to keep the campus safe.

"I told Dr. Meixner's wife, I failed you. We didn't keep the campus safe enough," Robbins said.

With multiple shootings happening on LSU's campus during football games this year, WBRZ asked Robbins what he

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