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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: Student Organizations: In and Out
In early spring, the campus of Evergreen State University (WA) was shocked by violence after a concert. The campus banned concerts for a time period while the investigation proceeded. The university wanted no more incidents until a committee could meet and review safety measures for student events. The Evergreen chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) challenged the ban, by holding a panel discussion and an anti-war folk music performance. As a result, Evergreen suspended the SDS group for the rest of the academic year. Under what conditions does a public college or university need to recognize an activist organization? The SDS helped set the standards in a 1972 East Coast case.
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Liability Tip: Meeting the Rights of Sexual Assault Victims
The “Campus Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights” was originally introduced by legislators who felt colleges were more concerned about their reputations than about the victims of some types of serious crime
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Opinion: Responding to Mental Illness
In the wake of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois, it is clear that our institutions and our individuals on campus face risks from those with mental illnesses. While colleges and universities raced to create warning and alert systems to be used in the case of an emergency, we still need to focus greater attention on the causes of emergencies
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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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