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Abstract: 

The editors review recent court decisions directly affecting college and university administration, discipline, and safety: A student is charged with harassing a female student at another university through the use of phone calls, text messages, and other threatening behavior, resulting in a Delaware warrant for his arrest; a court rules that a law school was within its rights to revoke the admission upon discovery of student’s misrepresentation regarding his criminal record; freshman fraternity pledgee injured in fraternity incident found to have a hause of action against the local fraternity but not against the college or national fraternity organization; The court held that even though the King family had paid tuition, King was a member of the public for purposes of the law when a student falls to his death from a steep cliff along a trail on the university campus. Law school graduates who failed to find satisfactory employment found to have a cause of action against law school based on state consumer fraud; policy regarding inviting non-students to speak or distribute literature on campus is questioned; the Supreme Court upholds voter propositions that ban the use of reverse discrimination.

Keywords: Boyd v. State University of New York at Cortland; Powers v. St. John’s University Law School; Yost v. Wabash College; King v. Cornell Univ.; Sjostrand v. Ohio State Univ.; McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green; g., Gomez-Jimenez v. New York Law School;

Affiliations:  1: Co-Editor; 2: Co-Editor.