<p>The students referenced in this article were subject to an illegal search by state resources, including police and state drug dogs, without cause and without warrant. They are being represented by a civil rights attorney who approached them and is covering his own costs. The students involved in the suit were not charged with any misconduct by the university and are suing out of a patriotic duty to uphold the us constitution’s explicit protections designed to counter this sweeping search and seizure.
These students are not necessarily privileged or affluent or “frat boys”, however that is meant to be construed. After one student was found to be selling marijuana over 200 students returned from class to find that their rooms had been searched by state troopers with the contents of their rooms dumped and examined across the floor. Bucknell is attempting to intimidate these students in an effort to avoid a lawsuit because they know they are in the wrong. </p>