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May 15, 2004
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| Sexual Assault Prevention Inconsistent, Underfunded, Study Says Lack of funding and consistency hamper many California colleges’ and universities’ sexual assault services and education programs, according to a state-funded report released last month. |
| Family Attributes Death to School’s Title IX Push A recent lawsuit claims that a California university’s efforts to meet Title IX requirements led it to act negligently, resulting in a student-athlete’s death. |
| Is Sport and Recreation Safety a Student or Campus Responsibility? A variety of courts in the past two decades have examined what an institution’s safety duties are in regard to student sports and recreation. In general, the more control the campus has over the activity, the more duty it has to ensure student safety. |
| Fighting the Keg Mystique There’s something about kegs — something in addition to the large volumes of beer they hold — that inspires over-consumption and dangerous behavior, says Rick Younger, a captain in the St. Louis University Department of Public Safety. |
| Students Hunger for Files, However They’re Served A look at recent news and research on college students’ file-sharing habits reveals that they are more interested in obtaining the files they want than in how those files are delivered to them. That’s both bad and good news to college campuses. A general disregard for intellectual property law, at least in this realm, could mean increasing campus troubles with illegal entertainment downloads. But it also suggests that students are willing to take the legal route, when it leads to what they want. |
| Learning Communities for Commuter Students Many campuses host first-year learning communities for their residential students--but what about their commuter students? A learning community piloted at Wilkes University in fall 2003 shows that commuter students indeed benefit from such programming. |
| On-Campus Reports Hacked Emergency Website; Student Depression and Alcohol; Do Men Plagiarize More?; Correction |
| Follow-Ups Campus Crime Investigation Law; Undocumented Immigrant Enrollment |
| Resources Early- and Mid-Level Student Affairs Institute; Learning Communities Conference; Experiences of New Student Affairs Professionals |
