"The University has counseling programs for our employees, and these are supplemented...by trained staff from other public safety agencies whose experience in trauma cases exceeds our own," Riley wrote.

But, the guard said, with the deaths of three guards within the past year, department moral is low.

"We're pretty shaken up," he said.

The latest death comes only a little more than a month after John M. Weisenmiller, a guard in Agassiz House, collapsed on the job of a heart attack and later died.

Wrinn said deaths like these affect the entire University staff community.

"Like all offices, it's a collection of human beings. When something like this happens, it affects on you on a personal basis," he said.