Kansas State University pays nearly $400,000 a year to its cabal of lawyers, I found out recently from Freedom of Information documents. It gives me umbrage to think K-State's administrators are beholden to their attorneys more than they are accountable to their students.
I have a complaint that K-State isn't being accountable in a case of negligence at one of its residence halls. I have asked for K-State to step up to the plate and assume responsibility by providing a fund for unpaid medical bills or for future treatment. Of course, this plea is falling on deaf ears.
Let's remember the University is not perfect. K-State's attorneys lost a lawsuit in 1993 relating to a lawsuit brought by a woman who was raped by one of K-State's student athletes in a residence hall.
I believe K-State's administrators probably listen too much to their lawyers advice and not enough to their own instincts.
If K-State would set aside just 5% to 10% a year of what they pay their lawyers to set up a fund for students who are injured or harmed on the University's watch in residence halls, perhaps KSU would have less need for lawyers to represent them in civil actions such as Nero v. KSU in 1993.
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