Texas Court's Ruling in Bonfire Case Widens Liability Worries for College Officials

A Texas court's recent ruling that allowed a negligence lawsuit to proceed against 12 former administrators at Texas A&M University has some higher-education legal experts concerned about campus officials' liability in a variety of situations, including fraternity initiations, housing accidents, and student suicides.

The decision was in favor of the parents of students who were killed or injured in November 1999 on the College Station campus, in the collapse of a 59-foot-high stack

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