This week’s Top 5 Friday brings you the best of the worst … the worst college students, that is. It’s articles like these that remind you college isn’t for everyone.

1. Dorm search yields bonanza – but was it legal?

• Responding to a report of a student “waving a knife around,” college police officers went to his room and found the knife – and much more. The big question: Was the search legal?

2. Violent hazing: No longer just sports and frats

• Think hazing is limited to college sports and fraternities? Guess again.

3. Student dies in drunken fall — is school on the hook?

• A jury said a school should pay $260,000 to the family of a student who was killed. Here’s why an appeals court wiped out the award.

4. Parents sue after student is killed in fight

• The student made a tragic decision to join a fight. So why did his parents sue the school?

5. Student’s vulgar blog post leads to lawsuit

• A nursing student assigned to follow a patient through the birthing process got a little out of hand when she chronicled the experience on her MySpace page, school officials said.

This week’s Top 5 Friday brings you the five most popular Legal stories HigherEdMorning has published.  If there’s one thing we can learn, it’s that where there are students … there are inevitably lawsuits.

1. School tries e-books – and gets sued

• Electronic textbooks might be the next big thing. But until a few kinks get worked out, schools run the risk of getting sued by using them

2. Is it OK to use race in admissions? Court says yes

• Should race be a factor in admissions decisions? It is for this school — which found itself defending discrimination charges in court.

3. Students to school: ‘We want guns’

• Campuses would be safer if students had guns, say two students who sued their school – and won.

4. Supreme Court to decide: Can Christian group exclude gays and lesbians?

• Can universities refuse to recognize and fund Christian student clubs if members exclude gays, lesbians and non-Christians?

5. Student’s ‘C’ grade lands school in court

• Unhappy with his grade, a student sued for an order requiring the school to switch to a pass/fail system.