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Due Process at Middlebury
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The Village Voice had an interesting article recently about a senior at Middlebury College who was expelled from school for allegedly entering a classmate’s dorm room without permission. The article highlights one of the major problems at many American colleges and universities: the complete lack of due process — one of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution — in university judicial systems.
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