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10 Most Recent Headlines
Opinion: Punishment Fit the Crime? Laying Down the Law: Handling Harassment Cases Noted: Demanding Resources or a Lawsuit Liability Tip: Computer Users Need Basic Security Just Ask: reference letter risks Follow-up: Judgement in Dorm Fire Deaths Focus On… GLBT Rights Demonstrations Cross Examination: A Tale of Two Orders Cases of the Month: Curbing False ID Use Opinion: Scared of the Big Judgments?
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Resources: A Guide for Staff
Seeking a general guidebook on legal “do’s and don’ts" for a college or university? Consider “The Law and Your Campus: What Student Affairs Professionals Need to Know.”
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Out of the Courts: How to Halt Hazing?
What problems can hazing on campus create? Physical and psychological harms and even deaths. Fear of these consequences led to a recently completed “National Survey of Student Hazing.” The survey looked at responses from 11,842 college students at 53 campuses from across the country. On 18 campuses, researchers also conducted more than 300 interviews.
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Key Case: How Private is a Dorm Hallway?
A student called for campus police. He had awoken in the night and saw someone leaving his dorm room. A laptop computer and his guitar were missing. An officer from the Washington State University Police Department responded quickly. After taking a statement from the student, he began a search of the residence hall. That search became a Fourth Amendment Constitutional dispute.
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Key Case: Why Not Tenure?
In this tenure denial case the Rhode Island supreme court learned quite a bit about the inner workings of an academic department.
Out of the Courts: On-line Piracy Update
Laying Down the Law: Recognizing Student Groups (the Return of the SDS)
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