Marquette Suspends Dental Student for Blog Comments
Megan Twohey writes in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A dental student at Marquette University 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 a blog.
Scott Taylor, the student's attorney, said his client, a 22-year-old in Marquette's School of Dentistry, was brought before the committee for a conduct hearing last week after a classmate complained about his blog, a Web site that contained musings about topics ranging from his education to videogames and drinking.
The focus of the hearing, Taylor said, were half a dozen postings including one describing a professor as "a (expletive) of a teacher" and another that described 20 classmates as having the "intellectual/maturity of a 3-year-old."
Taylor released what he said was a complete transcript of the blog, which is no longer available online. Taylor said the student did not want to be identified, and his name could not be confirmed.
posted by Fergie @ 12/06/2005 10:05:00 AM
1 Comments:
The blog was was not at all hosted or sponsored by Marquette, but was a student's private blog.
As to whether Marquette, as a private university can do this, check this:
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2005/12/can-suspended-dental-school-blogger.html
For current news on this, check my blog:
Marquette Warrior Blog
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