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...great woman--she pays for school, books, trips, con traceptives, the phone bill, and my car. But she has a drinking problem, and I don't want to see her drink alone. I heard that she can give me drinks in my room because it's in loco parentis, but there's a problem...
...College supported its position of allowing in-house drinking by the legal theory of in loco parentis, which held that house masters and freshman advisors were acting as students' surrogate parents. The theory would be a rather dubious defense in court. As one house master said, "I don't feel like the parent to 365 kids." The real idea was that students are going to drink anyway, and it might as well be in an orderly, supervised fashion. But under public scrutiny, such enlightened policies have got to give...
...policy, which officials said would be modeled after Yale's strict guidelines, will replace the current system under which Harvard serves "in loco parentis" for most alcohol-related activities. The old policy banned drinking for under-age students only in publicized, University-wide events such as football games...
...least a score of prior cases from Alaska to Georgia involving school searches, lower court decisions have been sending what Thomson calls "a mixed message." A Louisiana court ruled for the stricter standard of probable cause; a few other states have cast school officials in loco parentis (in the place of a parent), able to search pretty much at will. But most lower courts have presaged the Supreme Court ruling for reasonable grounds, allowing the kind of search Choplick made...
...named Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) staggers through the desert, mute and loco. His square brother (Dean Stockwell) hauls Travis home to be reunited with his young son (Hunter Carson). Now Travis goes searching, with the boy in tow, for his long-lost wife (Nastassja Kinski). Welcome to the new West, pardner, where the myth of the loner is yoked to the grail of domestic reconciliation. No wonder Paris, Texas is as powerfully schizoid as its title: German director (Wim Wenders), American screenwriter (Sam Shepard), the clashing strategies of an international cast. With his gorgeous, precise images of the American Southwest...