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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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Out of the Courts: Seeking Fire Safety
The numbers tell the story and it’s a story that cannot be ignored:
· Between 2002 and 2005, there were an estimated 3,300 fires in dormitories, Greek housing, and barrack-type settings each year.
·Annually, these fires killed seven and injured 47 and caused over $25 million in property damage.
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Liability Tip: Reducing the Opportunity for Crime
Take away some of the campus spaces that can be the place of campus crime. Look carefully around schools for remote locations, like stairwells, empty halls, cul-de-sacs, and dead-end corridors.
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Cases Noted: Deportation for College Prank?
They probably thought that they were pretty funny. Two Mercyhurst College (PA) students pretended to be residence assistants last fall and went door-to-door. They knocked on doors and told students they were conducting a residence hall sweep for unauthorized alcohol.
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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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