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hen coed Beatrice After centuries of benign neglect by   C
Anthony caused some the courts, colleges and universities now {
minor difficulties in her find themselves confronting a legion of ,  
sorority, campus officials federal, state, and local laws which af-  
decided she was not “a fect virtually all of their operations, and ?
typical Syracuse girl" and promptly ex- a growing body of court decisions which n
pelled her. Anthony sued Syracuse Uni- redefine their powers and their place in
versity and lost. The court ruled that at- society. g
tendence at a private university is a priv- More people are suing more colleges
ilege, not a right, and can be revoked at for more reasons than anyone could b
any time, for practically any reason. have dreamed when Anthony went to
That was fifty years ago, when a law- court half a century ago. Suits range 1 E
suit by a student was rare. Times have across a broad spectrum of issues, from
changed, and so have the attitudes of exploitation in athletic recruiting to ti<
judges. Not long ago, for example, sexual harassment by professors; from l gt
Brigham Young University expelled a job discrimination to "academic mal- l m
student for what seemed a clear case of practice." And lawyers, who only a few le;
academic dishonesty——using a profes- years ago visited the campus on rare oc- R:
sor’s name on a paper in order to get it casions for legal consultation, are now ca
N     . M published. The judge in the en- key members of the institution’s admin- se
     "; suing court case told the istrative team. Here are some obvious 5(
{   i"       V   3   jury that it Could disrc- signs of the legal system’s growing inter- fo
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A (        ·· ni     standards. of honesty • One of Washmgtons fastest-growing in
A i `   j b '$.     _ 3   {     =\ rn deciding the.r1ght— associations today 1S NACUA——the Na- 1E
"   5 gl?   Q jj ~.t· ¢ r ·’ _ " ` · ’ y ·   é··_ t.  ·r;\ ness of the dismiss- tional Association of College and Um- O
Y 3,;-   — ‘ ‘__—é;,  I-      »   al. The student was versity Attorneys. When the group was 6(
3 -··; ? if     • [ ‘   » awarded $88,000 in founded in 1961, only 34 schools (out of m
@          r  V  .  damages. more than 2,000) were members. Now, tii
`·“     $1 __ ~,&_    _,  . .5.,     ‘  with in·house legal counsel considered a of
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,t __   .—  i"   ”_'ei Vi ] ;   tional journals, a series of digests, and j fc
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‘ . ’.*`   `   /r" several legal consortia to help pool 1n-   ot
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isi  _, "i$·§;_ • For one recent two-week period, The er
ifi; _ " "" L  Chronicle of Hzgher Education listed 17 4 sin
"Ii,     national meetings devoted to legal issues
  _   in higher education.
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