Are persons entering campus concerts, speeches or sporting events subject to searches? Are they legal? In the years since 9/11, colleges and universities have begun to implement a greater degree of security measures for major events. Some schools conduct bag checks or limit what can be brought into a venue. Some institutions use metal detectors or even pat down searches before people can enter a site for a major collegiate event.

One year after a hazing charge against a University of Vermont fraternity was filed, civil complaints were added to the case as well. The police wrote the tickets after the organization forced prospective members to wear cowboy outfits at a gay bashing “Brokeback Mountain” theme party. UVM suspended the chapter after the incident. But a lower level court hearing the civil case decided to dismiss the charges.

Consensual relationships with two University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point students cost the biology department chair his job this past spring. One involved a student who had the professor as her advisor. The other was a graduate student taking one of the chairman’s courses at the same time.