A for-profit technical college in Wilmington will have to pay a former student more than $53,000 after it failed to conduct a criminal background check that would have shown the student was ineligible for the program he enrolled in. The ...

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Wilson Parker, a constitutional law expert at Wake Forest University's School of Law, has just published a law book that doesn't cite any cases. But it has plenty of good advice. With headings such as "Pay Attention!" Parker lays out everything a college student might need to know about avoiding legal problems in Ignorance is No Defense: A College Student's Guide to N.C. Law.

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News flash: “Davidson College’s primary goal is education.” That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows anything about higher education in this state. After all, Tom Ross, the president of the small but highly regarded liberal arts college, ...

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 By SYLVIA ADCOCK, Staff Writer [email protected]   If you weren’t looking for it, you’d miss Porthole Alley. But it’s there, right off East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, near the Carolina Coffee Shop. About a half-block long, it dead-ends into ...

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By SYLVIA ADCOCK, Staff Writer [email protected] The N.C. Supreme Court last week agreed to stay the effects of a case involving Davidson College that raised questions about whether church-affiliated college campuses could have sworn police officers. The state Attorney General’s ...

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How many of North Carolina’s private colleges and universities are church-affiliated? More than you can shake a stick at. Brevard College, Belmont Abbey College, Mount Olive College, Gardner-Webb University, to name a few. So it’s not surprising that the office ...

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State v. Yencer. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-07-0815, 10 pp.) (James A. Wynn Jr., J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Jesse B. Caldwell III, J.) Holding: The state’s conveyance of police powers to campus police officers at Davidson College is ...

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