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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: Closing and Opening Records
One of the policy outcomes from the tragic 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech was a re-examination of student record privacy. The state commission that looked into the shootings questioned why more people were not aware of the student-shooter’s background and the degree to which his family had been in contact with the school over his difficulties. To what degree should his records have been shared? With whom? Under what conditions?
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Key Case: Buying the Election?
Can a public university impose a spending limit on how much a student candidate can invest in a campaign for a student leadership position? Under University of Montana rules, there was a $100 campaign expenditures limit for associated student government positions. After the 2005 campus elections, the policy was challenged in court.
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Cases Noted: Popular Cars to Steal
Campus police at Palamor College say that their auto-vehicle theft efforts have been effective, but thieves target a few specific types of cars on campus.
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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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