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Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description
flutterecho writes "A sophomore at Valdosta State University was expelled after criticizing his university's plan to build two new parking garages with student fees. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald Zaccari, the university's president, wrote that he 'present[ed] a clear and present danger to this campus' and referred to an image on the student's Facebook page which contained a threatening description. 'As additional evidence of the threat posed by Barnes, the document referred to a link he posted to his Facebook profile whose accompanying graphic read: "Shoot it. Upload it. Get famous. Project Spotlight is searching for the next big thing. Are you it?" It doesn't mention that Project Spotlight was an online digital video contest and that "shoot" in that context meant "record."' In a post-Virginia Tech world, has university surveillance of online identities gone too far?"
How do we know that they didn't call the cops?
Sheesh, you'd think if they slipped a note under the door, at least they'd share a copy of that.
There's so much info missing here that it makes me wonder if the kid's name isn't somehow related to Darl McBride.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
What makes it difficult for an employer about those greatest in the world private universities is determining whether the graduate merited the degree or was eased through due to sporting prowess, "legacy" scholarship (ie. daddy bribed the school) or even just got a bit of paper from a degree mill with a deliberately similar name. Bush is certainly no adveristisment for Harvard even if the folksy dumb southern act is to make him fit in with a constituancy that wouldn't like an Ivy League educated son of a Washington Beauracrat.