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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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Opinion: Making Disabilities Work for the Campus
Too often, the college or university focus on disability issues is on the law or accommodations. What is the law? What does it “make” us do? How do we have to accommodate persons with disabilities? Time to rethink this perspective.
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Laying Down the Law: Seize Information on Searches
Head: Laying Down the Law
Sub: Seize Information on Searches
The Law? Constitutional Fourth Amendment protections from unlawful searches and seizures apply on college and university campuses.
The Law? Constitutional Fourth Amendment protections from unlawful searches and seizures apply on college and university campuses.To what degree can campuses search students and student property based on suspicions? In previous court cases, it has been held that a public school search needs to be “reasonable at its inception” and its scope should not go beyond what is appropriate under the circumstances.
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Cross Examination: Student Election Woes Grow
It used to be pretty simple to have a basic election in a group. Someone would tear up a few sheets of paper and pass the scraps around. Everyone would write a name on their piece, fold it up and someone was trusted to collect and count them. The winner was announced and life went on. Student elections today on college campuses are far more complex and can be more challenging. Consider some of the recent student election conflicts and some of the student election cases, in the past that have brought candidates, institutions, and their policies into court.
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Liability Tip: Responding to Overseas Crisis With a growing number of student traveling overseas each year for an international academic experience, the likelihood of an international crisis involving students increases.
Cross Examination: Press Still Free Decades Later
The 1983 student burglary and theft charges had been printed in the Cornell University student newspaper but when an Internet search found the old article in 2007, the accused student sued..
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