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Family settles with USU over son's slackline death

Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

FILE – People hang out on the quad in front of the Agricultural Sciences building at Utah State University in Logan on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Utah State University has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit with the family of a college student who was killed in August 2013 when he hit a rope tied between two trees known as a "slack line" while riding his bike.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah State University has agreed to caution students about how to keep others safe while slacklining as part of a settlement reached in a wrongful-death lawsuit lodged by the family of a college student who was killed in August 2013, a university official said Friday.