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...Madison campus led to raucous protests, the school suspended ten students under a regulation that prohibited misconduct. Judge Doyle struck down the rule, holding that the standard of "misconduct" alone was unconstitutionally vague. "The facts of life," he said, "have long undermined the concepts, such as in loco parent is, that have been invoked historically for conferring upon university authorities virtually limitless disciplinary discretion." His decision was upheld on appeal. - At the Oshkosh campus of Wisconsin...
...today's students really against the old American notion that colleges must act in loco parentis? In some ways, the young seem to be asking for even more tender, loving care. At Stanford University, President Kenneth Pitzer is now pondering whether his school should take over yet another function-dispensing the Pill to unmarried women students under as well as over...
Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of the College and acting chairman of the Ad Board, declined comment on the problem. But he said that the Board will take up the questions of shoplifting and of the University's in loco parentis relationship to shoplifters at its meeting on November...
...Because present draft laws make severing a procedure often less lenient than that which might be meted out by a Cambridge court, and because Harvard's in loco parentis role is under fire on many fronts, some members of the Ad Board favor turning shoplifters over to civil authorities. Others say that most shoplifters are students in need of help who should not be made subject to a possible criminal record...
...younger generation has rebelled against its elders in the home. It has stormed the campuses. About the only target remaining in loco parentis is that preoccupier of youth, television. Last week the television generation struck there too, but the rebellion was half in fun: an art exhibition at Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery entitled "TV as a Creative Medium...