To give one a sense of how "over sensitive" parents are as well as how facebook gives parents a basis to compalin to the "powers that be", consider this local NY State story where all of the schools in a school dirstrict were closed down because a parent thought that the word "combine" had something to do with "Columbine". See: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/NY-School-District-Shut-Down-Over-Facebook-Misunderstanding-85831412.html or http://tinyurl.com/y8hkovo
-Mike Palij New York University [email protected] ----------- Original Message-------------- On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:44:45 -0800, Edward Pollak wrote: >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. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=976 or send a blank email to leave-976-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
