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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: Students Gone Wild?
Most student body presidents and vice presidents include their titles and experiences on their resumes when they graduate. The student leaders of the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz) have a couple of other words they might not want to include, if they are ever allowed to graduate. The words are “suspended” and “expelled.” Their problems began in spring 2006 when they were charged by campus officials with harassment of residence life director. The incident, caught on videotape and featured on a number of websites, led to campus discipline, criminal charges, and a federal lawsuit.
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Follow-Up: Campus Death Leads to Award
The attack took place in spring 1998. For the family, justice was delayed but finally took place in summer 2006. That is when a state jury awarded the family of the deceased Knox College (Ill.) student over $1 million in damages. The surviving family members had earlier filed a claim for wrongful death against the college over the beating death of their freshman daughter. She was killed by a classmate on campus.
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Focus On: Addressing Alcohol
Several campuses and communities have initiated or are attempting new approaches to an old problem, misuse and abuse of alcohol by college students.
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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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