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.