94.37 Man bites dog . . . and some students don't drink, 219

94.52 Binge drinking on campus, 245

95.1 Teenage alcohol abuse [alcohol abusers responsible for their conduct; alcohol abuse andsuburban youth culture; binge drinking survey; secondary binge effects], 312.

95.8 Drugs on campus [increasing use of marijuana and heroin; alcohol and illegal drug use related;Prozac and the abuse of antidepressant drugs], 325.

95.36 Giving students time to search [Tolstoy, spiritual healing, and antidepressant drugs; helpingstudents learn a message from their symptoms], 371.

95.37 Younger, "suburban" inhalers of heroin, 371.

95.44 Underage drinking report [Massachusetts underage drinking task force report; "cops in shops"sting program; use of student peer leaders], 383.

95.64 Personal accountability and the ADA [three Section 504/ADA cases hold that employees whoengage in illegal or dangerous behavior can be fired or demoted, even if there is a causalconnection between their behavior and a disability; a contrary holding in Teahan v. Metro- NorthCommuter R.R.; Karl Menninger on the need to reassert personal responsibility; the SeventhCircuit in Anderson v. University of Wisconsin held that the University did not violate theRehabilitation Act when it refused to readmit an alcoholic student with a poor grade pointaverage who had "harassed and threatened his legal writing partner"], 417.

96.39 A national focus on adolescent drug use [rise in drug use fueled by marijuana; drug abuse atHarvard; historical patterns of drug abuse; some African-Americans see a governmentconspiracy; the primary components of campus drug abuse programming must be honesty,inclusiveness, peer involvement, and creativity], 533.

96.41 Alcohol and "state-created" danger [police officers and public agencies may be liable foraffirmatively creating a danger to a foreseeable plaintiff], 538.

96.42 The value of "investigatory" procedures ["drug courts" and college "disciplinary conferences"replace traditional adversarial procedures with the investigatory model], 540.

97.34 Current drug slang, 639.

97.38 Attacking the "culture" of drinking on campus, [review of proposed federal legislation: "TheCollege Campus Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Education Act"], 645.

98.1 Law and Policy: 1998 [recent data on substance use by students; outline of suggested policiesand procedures; A recommended approach, identified in Booker v. Lehigh University, involvesestablishing reasonable rules or policies and affirming that adult students have ultimateresponsibility for their own conduct], 684.

98.20 A reflection on alcohol and student life [alcohol and the definition of self; forming a self inrelationship with others; forming a self by mastering emotions; forming a self by learning], 730.

98.24 The most dangerous drug [New data in the biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicatesubstantial numbers of students are becoming daily smokers; correlation between use of tobaccoand use of alcohol and other drugs; critical role of peers (ex-smokers) in reducing youthsmoking], 737.

98.38 Higher education amendments, Part I [selections from amendments to the Family EducationalRights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and a non-binding "sense of Congress" statement on "BingeDrinking on College Campuses"; issues and suggested policies], 770.

98.39 Higher education amendments, Part II [policy considerations that have to be addressed in light ofnew FERPA amendments; social forces prompting greater governmental intervention in campuslife; parental activism in shaping living and learning environments for students; sociologist AlanWolfe on "morality writ small;" "consensus conference" as a means to solicit communityperspectives], 773.

98.49 "Voluntarily endured" hazing protected in Alabama [in Jones v. Kappa Alpha, the AlabamaSupreme Court held that a fraternity pledge assumed the risk of hazing, and could not pursue acause of action against a fraternity or its members for the hazing], 803.

98.50 Fighting alcohol abuse: 1998 summary [recent data on nature and extent of alcohol abuse,especially early teen drinking; evolving strategies to control binge drinking; seniors pledge torefrain from the "fourth-year fifth" at the University of Virginia; Boston area colleges develop "53-point" plan to reduce student drinking; alcohol rioters appear to have little sustained peersupport], 804.

99.46 Expanding the university's duty of care [in Knoll v. Board of Regents the Supreme Court of Nebraska held that the University of Nebraska had a duty as a landowner to protect a nineteen-year old student from "foreseeable" acts of unlawful hazing by an off-campus fraternity; interview with law professors Bickel and Lake], 917.

99.50 Responding to student misconduct off-campus, part I [legal authority to discipline students for off-campus misconduct; opinion of the Maryland Attorney General], 925.

99.51 Responding to student misconduct off-campus, part II [defining educational objectives; seeing students as part of an association-on or off-campus; avoiding "country club" judicial systems for upper-middle class youth; giving students a voice in defining policy; interview with Timothy Brooks at the University of Delaware], 927.

00.3 What "duties" should colleges assume? [Holding in Bradshaw v. Rawlings contrasted with Coghlan v. Beta Theta Pi Fraternity (knowledge by university employees that underage students were being served alcohol leads to duty of care)], 935.

00.4 How should the student-university relationship be defined? [overview of cases related to the institutional duty of care; Review of Bickel and Lake on the "bystander university"; concept of voluntary association], 938.

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