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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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Cases of the Month: Talking About Campus Talk
This month, a look at some of the issues related to speech on campus; who can talk about what today?
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Just Ask: Liability for Off-Campus Events
Q. To what extent can the campus be found responsible for off-campus events not sponsored or supported by the school? Is the institution at risk for student activities, even if they are away and unsanctioned?
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Out of the Courts: Trusting the Trustees?
In 2002, the federal government adopted strict governance standards and financial-reporting guidelines for publicly owned companies. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was intended to approve corporate accountability. Just how accountable are the governing boards of colleges and universities today? And what can or should be done to limit the opportunities for governance scandals due to conflicts of interest and self-dealing?
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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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