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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once again, do not expect ANY supervision from colleges regarding social or even criminal behavior. The US Supreme Court discouraged "in loco parentis" in the 1970s. Now colleges are advised not to set any precedents by setting or enforcing rules on conduct. It's gotten much worse since 2000.
Your college kid is on their own - totally.[/quote]
This is totally unacceptable. 
Why pay anything for that?[/quote]

I don't like it either.  But what can they do?  You can't make your adult children do anything in your own home so why should they be held responsible.  They should have enforced the rule about the father living there.  They completely dropped the ball on that one.  But he already had a strong hold it seems like.[/quote]

He had a hold on his daughter, it seems, but if he had been tossed out of the dorm he might not have gotten influence over what sound like very vulnerable, susceptible young adults who were in his orbit because he freaking LIVED with them.

Sadly, just because a person is over 18 and "able" to live somewhere that's not home, that does not mean he or she is at all capable of recognizing manipulation. And young adults/college students now want to be easygoing, kind, open to everyone, unbiased--and they think it's judgy, cynical and biased to suspect that someone might be anything other than OK. Live and let live. I see it in my DC and DC's peers. It's commendable in theory but this case shows why it can turn out tragically in reality.

Show my DC and DC's friends an article like this one and they'll say it's awful but can't happen to them because they'll be more aware than these students were.

Which is frightening because I'm sure the students at SLC would have thought the same thing. [/quote]

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