What can and should colleges and universities do in response to students who may be a threat to themselves? Consider a new resource from College Administration Publications, titled “Questions and Answers on College Student Suicide: A Law and Policy Perspective.”

Q. What’s the latest with the controversy over the campus use of stun guns or sticks? Do campus police routinely carry and use them? How do they work?

As campuses consider the degree to which off-campus acts can be the subject of on-campus discipline, the University of California-Santa Barbara came to a split decision.