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Kent State Banning Athletes from Using Facebook
denebian devil links to a Columbus Dispatch story about athletes at Kent State being forbidden to use Facebook — "not by the Web site, but by university administrators."
From the article: "Athletics Director Laing Kennedy recently told student-athletes they have until Aug. 1 to remove their Facebook profiles, citing a need to protect both their identities and the university's image. "We're really concerned about the safety of our student-athletes and some of the personal information some of them have on there," he said. ... If student-athletes don't remove their profiles by the deadline, they risk losing their scholarships, he said. Coaches and athletics counselors will monitor the site for violators."
denebian devil continues "Arstechnica also has an interesting take on the subject. Makes you wonder why they even bother providing internet connections on college campuses."
Why Facebook and not Myspace? I've never even heard of "Facebook"...
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But she stressed the importance of excluding information employers wouldn't want to see.
One student chose a picture of himself shirtless holding a Miller Lite can for his profile photo. He's on the baseball team.
Another belongs to the "My cell phone is my best friend when I'm drunk in Kent" group and lists skinny-dipping as an interest.
I always thought these were good things on a pro-athlete's resume?
Yes, that's definitely my thought process. If I go look for the Kent State football players on Facebook and don't find any, the obvious conclusion is that the National Guard must have killed them.
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At least these are college students instead of pedophiles, adolescents, and aspiring criminals
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you mean that's not the same?
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Tin soldiers and Bush is coming,
We're finally on our own website.
This summer I hear the clicking, Four spreads in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Firewalls are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her spread nude on the page
How can you link when you know?
Gotta get down to it
Firewalls are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her spread nude on the page
How can you link when you know?
Tin soldiers and Bush is coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the clicking, Four spreads in Ohio.
Err... What in particular makes you think that if they speak up the university administration will not use the national guard to make them keep their mouth shut. After all this is Kent State we are talking about. It has traditions to uphold in this area.
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If you took a second to consider your thinking here, you may have realized that while you can write a legally binding contract forbidding one party from engaging in a legal activity, you cannot write a contract requiring one party to engage in an illegal one.
So, while I can write an athletic scholarship demanding that a student participate in a given sport in order to get the money, I cannot write one that forces women to have sex with me (since that would be coerced sex or, depending on the attitude of the woman in question, prostitution).
But I'm sure that's obvious to anyone with the least bit of sense.
I call bullshit. You claim that you had an athletic scholarship AND you are posting on slashdot?
Next, you'll be telling us that you have a girlfriend and that you like gnome and kde equally well.
Yeah, wow, good point.
I'm glad you're here to point this sort of thing out. Maybe next time the folks who run Kent State will learn that they should talk to a lawyer, or at least someone on Slashdot who thinks they're a lawyer, before they try stuff like this.
Not that it excuses the kind of CYA mentality, but certain plenty of religious affilitated image conscious schools require their athletes sign a code of conduct, like no drinking in public, etc, as a condition of recieving the scholarship. Apparently Kent State believes these sorts of ties between conduct and finance aren't enough to prevent it from being known that their athletes aren't infalliable supermen who excel in athletic, academic and moral standing, and wishes to add what is essentially an NDA to their contract.
Something here is broken. Maybe it's that Universities, institutes of higher education, are resorting to sporting events as a recruiting campaign. Maybe it's the number of schools pitting athletes against each other such that success requires dedication to the exclusion of personal growth. Maybe it's students, for being so vain as to photograph themselves in comprimising situations, and think that the public Internet is a suitable place to distribute these to close friends and strangers alike. Maybe it's you and me for watching the whole thing. But lets face it, there's no Rose Bowl for the most wholesome two teams in the nation. The Final Four aren't the four people left at the party who refused to hook up with drunken coeds.
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Kent State has a proud history of violating their students rights.
at least the National Guard is tied up on the border. I'd hate to see anyone shot for exposing this fine university to the internet.
This is about BASIC FREEDOMS here! I'm gonna ENJOY my coffee.
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