The board of regents shall have power and it shall be their duty to enact laws for the government of said college [New Mexico state university] and experiment station and the meetings of said board may be called in such manner as the regents may prescribe.

History: Laws 1889, ch. 138, § 26; C.L. 1897, § 3559; Code 1915, § 5137; C.S. 1929, § 130-1011; 1941 Comp., § 55-2506; 1953 Comp., § 73-26-6.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 1889, ch. 138, § 2, created and established the agricultural college and agricultural experiment station of New Mexico, as an institution of learning. Laws 1893, ch. 61, § 24, changed the name of the agricultural college and agricultural (experiment) station of New Mexico to the New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts. Article XII, Section 11, of the constitution of New Mexico, as repealed and reenacted November 8, 1960, further changed the name to the New Mexico state university. See also 21-8-2 NMSA 1978.

Regulation of student conduct. — The power to control, manage and govern the New Mexico state university is vested in the regents, the proper exercise of which necessarily includes the exercise of broad discretion. An inherent part of the power is that of requiring students to adhere to generally accepted standards of conduct, and the prohibition embodied in the regulation in question forbidding visitation by persons of the opposite sex in residence hall or dormitory bedrooms is consistent with generally accepted standards of conduct. Futrell v. Ahrens, 1975-NMSC-044, 88 N.M. 284, 540 P.2d 214.

Of visitation in university bedrooms. — A regulation of the board of regents of the New Mexico state university which limits visitation by persons of the opposite sex in residence hall or dormitory bedrooms maintained by the regents on the university campus, does not interfere appreciably, if at all, with the intercommunication important to the students of the university. The regulation is reasonable, serves legitimate educational purposes and promotes the welfare of the students at the university. Futrell v. Ahrens, 1975-NMSC-044, 88 N.M. 284, 540 P.2d 214.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 15A Am. Jur. 2d Colleges and Universities § 25.

Mandamus to compel enrollment or reinstatement of student, 39 A.L.R. 1019.

Failure of student to attain or maintain prescribed scholastic rating as ground for dropping him, 86 A.L.R. 484.

Validity of regulation as to clothes of pupils, 14 A.L.R.3d 1201.

14A C.J.S. Colleges and Universities § 18.