ALCOHOL, DROWNING — A FRATERNITY BANNED

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 4, 2004, Brent E. Johnson drowned in Cedar Lake.  The lake, not very far from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) campus, was the site of...
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ADVISOR LIABILITY — THE UNIVERSITY PERSPECTIVE

Nancy E. Tribbensee Students who were stabbed while performing in college plays that used real knives instead of props have sued their institutions.  Students and their families have sued for injuries and deaths when a bonfire being built as a...
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PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR FRATERNITIES CAUGHT IN THE BATTLE FOR FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS

Greg Lukianoff* & Matthew Vasconcellos I. Introduction While there is no shortage of free speech battles on college campuses, fraternities have the dubious honor of being at the center of many of the least sympathetic controversies.  From Halloween parties where...
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