February 22, 2008

Should Colleges Be Sued for Harboring Intolerance?

By STEVE SANDERS

CASE IN POINT

Love v. Morehouse College (2007)

Gregory A. Love, then a student at Morehouse College, in Atlanta, was beaten in 2002 with a baseball bat by a fellow student in a dormitory shower after Love made what his attacker perceived as a homosexual advance. The attacker was later convicted of aggravated assault and battery.

Love sued Morehouse, arguing that the all-male, historically black institution was liable for his injuries because it had fostered intolerance

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