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April 14, 2008
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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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Cross Examination: Ski Class Death and Consequences

The newspaper death notice said she passed away at age 21 in the critical care unit of a local medical center. She had planned to get her degree at Dartmouth College (NH) in 2006 in art history and French. What happened to Christina Margaret Porter, Class of 2006? Consider the causes and consequences of a college sport class accident.

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Liability Tip: Answering the Fire Safety Quiz

Today, safety-conscious parents visit campuses with lists of questions about the collegiate environment they are considering for a son or daughter. The non-profit organization, the Center for Campus Fire Safety, has developed a list of “questions to ask” on a campus visit. The Center has circulated the list in an effort to help families make “an informed choice.” How well would your college or university answer the following?

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Opinion: Guns on Campus Not Funny

Years ago, in the midst of a series of highly publicized airplane hijackings to Cuba, television character Archie Bunker had a solution. On the hit broadcast program, “All in the Family,” the lead character proposed that everyone on board would be safer if the airlines gave everyone their own gun! We all laughed.

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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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