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Talk about overreaching school authorities. Not on school grounds, none of their business.

I know growing up back in the 1970's and 1980's, the rules were is that you were under the school jurisdiction only on their property, at their functions and in the process of going to and from school. Anything outside of that is off limits.

Since my time with P.C. coming in and common sense going out the window, I am sure a lot of things has changed since then.

One thing I remembered in college was I looked over the university discipline code and there was a piece that said, "No student may violate any federal, state or local law on or off campus". This was a pretty broad brush ! I got a few speeding tickets when I was in college but luckily, I didn't have to appear before the J-board to explain myself on those charges :) I don't know if it still on the books today. After I graduated in 1989, they were starting to use the code to crackdown on students who get busted at off campus parties. It may have been used while I was in school. Don't know. This is from when I served as secretary of the fraternity house and one of my jobs was to pickup campus mail. One of the guys in our house got arrested for shoplifting (dumb) and within a week, there was a letter from VP of Student Affirs with his name on it. I never asked or anything. It was probably related to the shoplifting incident.