School Power Over Student Web Speech?

Petey_Alchemist asks: "In the wake of the Pope John XIII student weblogging ban, the online lives of students are once again being examined by their academic institutions. News outlets are covering a series of recent events--most notably the expulsion of a Fisher College sophomore (who also happened to be President of the Student Government) after he posted in a 'controversial' Facebook group. Facebook, for those of you who don't know, is an incredibly popular social networking site for American college students. The fact that you must have a college email account to join provides some modicum (re: illusion) of privacy, but doesn't keep faculty or administrative members from joining and patrolling the website. Bottom line: Facebook, Pope John XIII, and other online student speech cases are popping up all over the place yet no case defining the amount of control a school has over a student based on that student's web speech has come before the Supreme Court. When will this happen? Moreover, what will be the result when it finally does?"

Comments

Busybodies or is there something deeper here?

[rolfwind]

Is it me or do these busybody administrators raise the level of comments from any other BS you read on the net to newsworthy by their own actions?

Re:Personal Experience

[Urusai]

Don't be stupid about where you choose to go to college. BYU is not a good choice, for instance. Or Oral Roberts. Or any other college named after an uptight religious lunatic.