A Similar Proposal at Appalachian State University also faces opposition from students. ASU's Student Government Association will vote next Tuesday on a bill that would require the university to notify parents of a student's second violation. The proposals at NCSU and ASU are made possible by Congress' reauthorization in 1998 of the Higher Education Act Amendments. The reauthorization amended the Buckley Law, also known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, to allow universities to notify the parents or legal guardians of a student if the student is under age 21 and has been found by the university to have committed a drug or alcohol violation. The Warner Amendment, a subtext of the Higher Education Act, allows but does not require institutions to notify the parents or legal guardians of students under 21 who violate that institution's alcohol or drug policies.
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