Contra: In Loco Parentis

Several years ago, a number of students at Southern University in Baton Rouge were expelled for demonstrating against local segregation practices. In his letter of expulsion, President Feltin Clark invoked Rule 16 in the Southern University Student Handbook. The rule reads:

Lack of University Adjustment. The University reserves the right to sever a student’s connection with the University for general inability to adjust himself to the pattern of the in...