FIRE has a must-read guide for any student caught up within the Kafka-esque nightmare known as the college judicial process: Too often, students on our nation’s campuses face misconduct charges without meaningful due process protections and fundamentally fair procedures. Because one must know one’s rights in order to exercise them, FIRE’s Guide to Due Process and Campus Justice introduces readers...
How to cure campus binge drinking: lower the drinking age
As someone who went to college when Texas raised the drinking ago from 18 to 21 (with a corresponding crackdown on public drinking by my university), I remember how student behavior changed: students began chugging beers in the privacy of their dorm rooms to get drunk before they headed out to that night’s party. Activists, administrators, and national policymakers concerned about a...