March 7, 2007 - 1:14am
By Noah Grynberg
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C.U. Stopped Snatching License Plates
The Sun reported on March 8, 1966 that Cornell would suspend its practice of confiscating students’ license plates after a specific number of traffic violations because the policy was illegal. University Counsel Neil R. Stamp told the University that it was unlawful to confiscate license plates because Cornell was, in effect, “exercising police power.”