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Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs
edmicman sends word of a Fox News report about a Michigan State University student who is facing suspension for bulk emailing a number of professors at the university about a proposed change to the school calendar — an e-mail that the university is labeling spam. The article contains links to a copy of the original email, the allegations against the student, and the university's Email Acceptable Use Policy. The student, Kara Spencer, asked a Philadelphia rights organization, FIRE, to get involved. The article quotes the FIRE defense program director: "The fact that MSU is considering punishment of Spencer simply for exercising her right to contact selected faculty members by e-mail shows a disturbing disregard for students' freedom of expression. ... Threatening a member of the student government with suspension for sending relevant, timely e-mails to faculty members is outrageous." Spencer is awaiting the school's judgement after a hearing, and vows to take to the courts if suspended.
That's what I hate about so many instructors they seem to think they have a right to grade you on your viewpoint when all they should grade you on is your ability to clearly state your point and support your conclusions (and grammar and spelling of course). These professors wonder why people are starting to view universities as indoctrination stations when you're not even allowed to dissent in opinion in an english class.
You're right!
For centuries everyone knew what "marriage" meant, and what it didn't mean.
For centuries everyone knew marriage was simply a union between 2 people.
Then bigots twisted the meaning of the word to prevent people who love each other from getting married!
http://www.drizzle.com/~slmndr/salamandir/pubs/irishtimes/opt3.htm
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/1998/0811/98081100088.html
Look to history! The church used to give their blessing to gays!
Now to point out that this is way way way off topic and we should both be modded down to get this drivel off the page.
Her mistake was trying to get the professors on her side. Being a professor is a pretty sweet deal and they're not going to screw that up by fighting against a change, especially when that change is getting two more days off per semester. That change would only make their sweet deal even sweeter.
She needs to realize that the only way this college is ever going to care is if she and a few thousand other students leave. Until then she can scream at the top of her lungs all she wants but no one will ever listen. I don't want to argue about how some people seem to think that having (mostly) free speech is like a magical spell which will stop the evils of the world. But the sad truth is that even when we know the truth we don't do anything about it. College students are mostly trying to do as little as possible while still convincing their parents that they're working hard (I apologize to the flower generation and the 5% of you who aren't) so they're the worst kind of people to try to get riled up. Free speech is basically wasted on them. Bong hits 4 Jesus indeed.
Sadly the story reminds me of how my college went from 40 days a quarter to a more rational 48 day semester. I mean, why have a 120 day school year when you can have a 96 day one and charge more because semester sounds so much better. It's really win/win since everyone gets to spend less time in class.