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Highlands University may do away with its computational engineering program.

The Highlands University academic affairs committee is recommending to the Board of Regents, which meets Friday, the elimination of the computational engineering program and suspension of the forensic science program.

City police responded to a greater number of calls than usual over the weekend, but that is typical during Fiestas de Las Vegas, an official said Monday.

“Our normal calls doubled. They were handled smoothly, but there is nothing huge to report,” Las Vegas Police Chief Gary Gold said. “It wasn’t a bad weekend.”

Gold said the police received a number of calls of fights on Bridge Street and at least one report of a man who was publicly drunk in Plaza Park — all of which was in the area of Fiestas.

The West Las Vegas school board may have made a mistake by taking its discussion about bus contracts behind closed doors last month, its leader says.

Board Chairman Kenny Lujan said last week that “we might have messed up,” so he wants the board to make it right.

“If we messed up, we’ll put it on the agenda as its own item. That will take suspicion away. We want to be on the up and up. I have nothing to hide,” he said.

He wouldn’t say exactly how the board may have made a mistake, saying it was a closed session.

Fiestas organizers stopped the music in Plaza Park for an hour Friday morning to pay respect to the country’s veterans.

On the Fourth of July, a number of speakers told the audience to remember that the holiday meant much more than barbecues and fireworks — that it was a celebration of the nation’s freedoms.

John Garcia, the secretary of the state Department of Veterans Services, asked for veterans to raise their hands or stand up, and many did just that. Then he asked those around them to shake their hands to thank them for their service to the country.