What crime would the university have committed?
And if you're meaning "would they have a defence to a civil action involving an allegation of a breach of a duty of care?", then yes.
As a general proposition, people have rights, including the right to make a decision which might have adverse consequences. Where a person does not have capacity to make that decision, by reason of the state of their mental health, or because of duress, for instance, then exceptions to that general proposition exist.
(Apologies for sending the previous response from a gmail account by mistake)
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