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<p>For a college to discipline a student for off-campus conduct, they must have a rationale that the off-campus incident poses some kind of impact on the campus. For example, a student getting into a fight or selling drugs across the street from the campus could clearly pose a campus threat. A student getting cited for an open beer can on a public street in Daytona Beach over Spring Break wouldn’t. Plagiarizing a term paper for a class clearly does, but being criticized for plagiarizing a novel unrelated to student work that was written prior to enrolling at the college would be a stretch. A college that attempted to over-reach in disciplining a student for private behavior that doesn’t impact the college (other than perhaps, being sensitive to negative publicity) could result in a lawsuit that the college would certainly lose.</p>