Virginia Tech - A fine that's not so fine
Source: Boston Globe Posted By: Hinton B...4985 days ago
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Education threw the book at Virginia Tech University. Actually, it was more like a pamphlet. Citing the school’s failure to alert the campus community in a timely fashion during the April 2007 massacre, the Feds imposed a fine of $55,000—the maximum penalty for each of two violations of the 1990 Clery Act.
In my mind, this penalty is absolutely unreasonable—unreasonably high, that is. Notwithstanding the unparalleled carnage that claimed the lives of....