N.J. Students Ordered to Take Down Blogs- October 27, 2005 Students at Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta, New Jersey have been told to remove personal postings about the school or themselves from Web sites like myspace.com or xanga.com even if the posts were made from home computers. The school says it is out of concern for the students' safety. An article from Yahoo News-AP has some quotes from Kurt Opsahl, a staff attorney at EFF, and Frank Askin, a constitutional law expert at Rutgers.http://univatty.blogspot.com/2005/10/nj-students-ordered-to-take-down-blogs.html But will they let him keep his "fisher.edu" email address- October 11, 2005 The Boston Globe reports that Fisher College has expelled the president of Fisher's Student Government for comments made in posts at the popular Facebook.com web site. According to the college's charge letter, Walker "conspired to and damaged the reputation of a campus police officer. In order to validate accounts at Facebook.com, a college student or alum is required to have a valid email provided by the school.http://univatty.blogspot.com/2005/10/but-will-they-let-him-keep-his.html |