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Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues

Posted by kdawson on from the striking-back dept.

gwoodrow writes "We've all heard the 'fired because of MySpace' stories, where a simple blog or picture gets someone canned. But now one of the targets is fighting back. (The offending picture in this case was a snap from Halloween 2005 of the student in a pirate outfit drinking from a cup.)" From the article: "Teacher in training Stacy Snyder was denied her education degree on the eve of graduation when Millersville University apparently found pictures on her MySpace page 'promoting underage drinking.' As a result, the 27-year-old mother of two had her teaching certificate withheld and was granted an English degree instead. In response, Snyder has filed a Federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania university asking for her education diploma and certificate along with $75,000 in damages."

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  1. No BS please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No bullshit please, clearly she was denied her degree due to pressure from the RIAA. Dressing as a pirate and so on...

    Arrr.

    1. Re:No BS please by MishgoDog · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster who saw her wearing the holy garb, and thus must give up her life of 'teaching' and preach the good word.

      So, not for the first time, he noodled the School Board...

  2. So what they're saying here is... by Churla · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's OK for a drunken pirate to have a pretty useless degree, but we'll be damned if we're going to enable a drunken pirate to get a low paying stressful thankless job by giving them a certificate!"

    Obviously ninja have infiltrated the schools administrative staff...

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  3. Wow. by geekmux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought I was the only one who got hammered off those Goodbar shooters. Whew, that's a relief.

  4. Re:Obviously! by Don_dumb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me correct that for you: -

    only students in the US go to uni to leech music and movies and drink underage, students everywhere else go to uni to drink.

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    If this were really happening, what would you think?
  5. Re:She was not denied her degree by subterfuge · · Score: 5, Funny

    If its about the pirate thing they should encourage this behaviour as the decline in pirate population is the cause of global warming...

  6. The longer I live... by cnelzie · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the more I understand as to why nobody in Europe wanted those pesky Puritans around and thus kicked them all to the US.

        Sometimes, I really dislike the behavior of some of my fellow Americans.

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    If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
  7. Don't you mean by jonathan3003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Arrr.IAA?