24.4.07

Vernonia Sch. Dist. 47J v. Acton (94-590), 515 U.S. 646 (1995).

(b) The first factor to be considered in determining reasonableness is the nature of the privacy interest on which the search intrudes. Here, the subjects of the Policy are children who have been committed to the temporary custody of the State as schoolmaster; in Page II that capacity, the State may exercise a degree of supervision and control greater than it could exercise over free adults. The requirements that public school children submit to physical examinations and be vaccinated indicate that they have a lesser privacy expectation with regard to medical examinations and procedures than the general population. Student athletes have even less of a legitimate privacy expectation, for an element of communal undress is inherent in athletic participation, and athletes are subject to preseason physical exams and rules regulating their conduct. Pp. 7-11.

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3.4.07

The Past Few Weeks,

has been a vicious and tiring cycle of running back and forth from the College of Fine Arts building, to my apartment, then to my place of employment and back to CFA. In the mean time there has been a huge basketball tournement, (my sympathies to all Ohio fans,) Mr. Universe is arrested for being drunk in public, and a young German woman goes a little nuts...

The things you miss when you're too busy to notice.