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Caught in the (Legal) Crossfire Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2007 Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard is quoted in a Wall Street Journal editorial on the liability issues surrounding administrator authority and student mental health issues at play in the Virginia Tech massacre.
Our hearts don't often go out to college administrators, but they are, in fact, in a terrible bind. As Philip K. Howard, the author of "The Death of Common Sense," explained to us: "The legal system has substantially disabled the judgment of the people with responsibility." Not that a mere change in law will help very much. He points to the absurd reforms following the 1999 Columbine shooting that resulted in "first-graders being suspended for drawing guns on pieces of paper." » article
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