Professor Suspended Over Facebook Venting

East Stroudsburg University has suspended Gloria Gadsden, a sociology 
professor, for joking comments she posted on her Facebook page that apparently 
were taken seriously, The Pocono 
Record<http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100226/NEWS/2260344>
 reported. One comment was about wanting to hire a hit man. Another said "had a 
good day today, DIDN'T want to kill even one student :-). Now Friday was a 
different story." Gadsden said that in the meeting where she was told of the 
suspension, a dean referenced last month's murders at the University of Alabama 
in Huntsville. Gadsden said that the humor was clear to her Facebook friends 
and she doesn't know why the university was monitoring her account. University 
officials said that they did not routinely monitor Facebook accounts and that 
they couldn't discuss details of Gadsden's case.

See http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100226/NEWS/2260344

Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
[email protected]
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Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, & bluegrass fiddler...... in 
approximate order of importance.


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