Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Campuses in the news for all the wrong reasons -- 1. Living on campus after the revolution -- 2. Institutional parenthood: the doctrine of inlLoco parentis. Legal cases invoking the doctrine. Four elements of the doctrine. The retreat from in loco parentis. Recent legal developments -- 3. Two views of the present situation: a survey and a field study. Administrators' perceptions: results of a survey. An anthropologist's view: results of a field study -- 4. The content of student codes: thou shalt have no large refrigerators. No cooking in the kitchenette and other curiosities. Procedures for enactment and enforcement. Plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Drinking and alcohol abuse on campus. Illegal drug use. Sexual and social mores. Abusive speech and writing -- 5. The goals of student-life policies. What counts as success? Derek Bok on moral character. Implications of community -- 6. Supervision of student behavior: an analytic framework and three models.