Amherst is a college... A private one at that(meaning that because they don't receive public funding, they don't have to abide by the same exact rules as public institutions do. I really fail to see what this has to do with the Country as a whole. A private institution makes their own rules, and the student agreed to abide by them upon attending. Not saying what happened to him is fair but still this has hardly anything to do with the legal system as a whole and more to do with the faulty policies of a college.