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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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Key Case: Trying to Settle on Single Sex Membership and Recognition
Could the college deny its recognition to an all-male student fraternity? Did the fraternity have a right of association? Did the college have a right to protect against discrimination on campus? The school and fraternity sought answers from the federal courts.
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Cross Examination: Arresting Development
The party and the student death took place in March. The investigation followed. Up until last summer, the story was tragically familiar in today’s higher education. But Rider University (NJ) and colleges and universities across the country were in for a surprise in late August.
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Cases Noted: As Nearly Free as Possible
Students filed suit in 2003, hoping to force Arizona to lower its public college tuition. The plaintiffs, taking classes at the state’s three public universities, sued the Board of Regents after tuition was raised by 39 percent in one year. The students argued that the increases were in violation of the state’s constitution, which requires that the state’s universities be “as nearly free as possible.”
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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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