Your offensive comments, especially if you attend a private university with reduced First Amendment protections, can get you suspended. An undisclosed Marquette University Dental student “has been suspended for the rest of the academic year and ordered to repeat a semester after a committee of professors, administrators and students determined that he violated professional conduct codes when he posted negative comments about unnamed students and professors on [his] blog.”
Everyone can take a breath – it wasn’t Swamps. She’s still in the dental school mix. Please checkout the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the whole story. Ironically, the Red and Black had a similar article about the possible dangers of how Facebook may hurt your chances for future employment.
Both of these articles show the importance of being responsible online publishers. It’s easy to forget that blogging and facebooking take place in the public domain. You never really know who’s reading your materials; it could be your mom, colleagues, professors, boss, or future people you haven’t met. Either way, we all should be careful about the things we post about ourselves and others.
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I guess i should take down the nude pics of myself. j/p but its crazy how sensitive people have become, and its even more amazing how they can use a person's opinion agianst them. I mean if a professor sucks then they just suck no need to get ofended by it. simply becuase everybody doesnt like each other.
I'm sure T.O. felt the same way you felt, and look where that got him - suspended from the Eagles with the team trying to sue to get him to return his signing bonus. I think the point of all this is, you can have an opinion about people, but you need to be careful how you express that opinion and where you express that opinion.
Well, since I seem to be the only one thats heard of it:
In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement that negatively affects someone's reputation. "Defamation" is the term generally used internationally, and is accordingly used in this article where it is not necessary to distinguish between "libel" and "slander".
Copied and paste from the following site, look for all the information about this you could want:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel#Libel_and_Slander
Even though it did not come up in this particular case, it is the argument I would have used if I was legal representation of the school.
Legal disclaimer: I am not a lawyer or have ever attended law school. I just know a few of them.
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