The College of Law

The Rising Cost of College Education Going to college is something that over the years has become more popular than in the past. With the number of students increasing the cost of college is also increasing. The cost of going to a university has been has become almost impossible for some. With prices of tuition steadily increasing, it makes it hard for some students to be able to afford going to a university. There are scholarships that pay for school or at least help to make this more…

Back in the 1820’s many Americans were unhappy because of the prohibition laws. The backslash of prohibition caused other social problems in the 1820’s (4). Today we are repeating history and making the same mistakes that occurred in the past. Prohibition didn’t work then and it’s not working now (4). The United States had many criminals operating in speakeasies and other illegal drinking bars during the “roaring twenties”. Al Capone was one of the main criminals during this time. Between…

claims that the drinking age should be lowered because it will lower the amount of students who binge drink, there will be fewer accounts of rape, and less students will be violating the drinking law. I do not think that Cohan succeeds because he gets all his evidence from Duke University and not any other colleges in the U.S., he does not stay on topic, and he uses some words that make him seem unprofessional. Although Cohan uses important dates and statistics from Duke, I feel that overall his…

community there are several strategies and resources that law schools should utilize in order to recruit and retain underrepresented minority groups. A strategy that would target more minority students is campaigning and promoting your law school within a minority community. A resource that can benefit both law schools and underrepresented minority groups is opening opportunities within minority communities to get such students involved in the law field early on. Another resource that can be of…

Wildlife officers are certified law enforcement officers that are primarily responsible for the enforcement of all wildlife laws and can also enforce state laws also. You have to have at least one year in college and all of the different types of law enforcement degrees. And as you can probably figure out you need your hunter's license there is also on the job training required such as activities in shooting practice in a designated shooting range, practice in operating the technology in the…

understanding of our rapidly changing world and its relationship to law and the economy. It is why I jumped at the opportunity to be able to contribute to the Office of Inspector General. I am currently a junior at Wagner College who is seeking to obtain a double major in English and…

Colleges Need To Take Sexual Assaults More Seriously ! ! Many parents hope to be sending their young adults off to college to achieve a good education and a life time of memories to cherish. Little do some know, their “babies” aren’t having the experience they would hope to find. It’s said to be that 1 in 4 women will be sexually assaulted in their college career and nearly 10% of these sexual assaults on campus are made towards men. College officials have yet to deal with these problems and it…

quite significant within the United States government. The case was argued in 1923 and reargued in that same year after Benjamin Gitlow was handing out copies of the Left-Wing Manifesto during the first Red Scare in the United States (Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2015) (US Supreme Court). The court case was not established until two years later in 1925. Gitlow v. New York established that a state government has the right to punish an individual or group for promoting revolution, even though they…

school because they have to work to survive, because they are girls or even because there are no schools where they live. Middle college v. Chandler, the earliest reported case in the United States, decided in 1844, to consider whether a college education is a “necessity” (Cohen 190). By comparing a college education to a common school education, the court concluded that a college education was “not necessary” in a legal sense, whereas a “common school education was necessary” because it was…

silent or impaired. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. In 1992, the Campus Sexual Assault Victims Bill of Rights required that all colleges and universities receiving federal student aid give sexual assault victims basic rights. Meaning, University campuses respond to sexual assault by holding the perpetrator accountable as well as giving the victim the opportunity to file a…