Marquette suspends dental student for blog comments

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 12/06/05 | MEGAN TWOHEY

[billorites]

Post in haste, repent at leisure!

[thulldud]

...School of Dentistry's code of ethics and professional conduct, which she described as "in keeping with the highest standards of conduct expected of those entering professions like dentistry."

Paging Dr. Scrivello:

[JamesP81]

Could you post us some email contact addresses?

[Red Badger]

".....when he posted negative comments about unnamed students and professors on a blog.

The Acadummies are the first and shrillest to scream about 1st amendment rights when their side is being torqued, but now that the tables are turned thay want to be the censors.........

[johniegrad]

Testy site you tried to hotlink to.

[Red Badger]

Post Haste Liesure Pants.........

[Incorrigible]

Those blogs will get ya!

[thulldud]

I wasn't hotlinking. I was just using the pic.

[DustyMoment]

Say, is this university administered by John McCain? As much as this sounds like an infringement of the student's First Amendment rights (see McCain-Feingold), the punishments exceeds the school's authority to enact.

If I were the student, given the extent of the punishment and the related financial penalties, I'd be hunting a good attorney.

[Jean S]

Contact info here: Denis Lynch's homepage.

[EnquiringMind]

Poor kid. Had he ended his blog with a big Bush bash, he would have been praised.

[sit-rep]

shame on you lol...

[GOP_Party_Animal]

I find it fascinating that, under the guise of "opinion diversity", Marquette allows an openly heretical professor to be protected by tenure (*cough* Maguire *cough*). Yet at the same time, a student that has some rather mild complaints on his blog gets 40 lashes.

Welcome to leftist academia.

[TheBigB]

Private University; hence, no Gov't involvement; hence, no Constitutional issues.

A private school sets its own rules and can kick you out for sayin "Boo!" if it wants. The student has no case if he decides to sue.

[TheBigB]

That's assuming the rules are clear and enforced equally, of course.

[atomic conspiracy]

Recent comments posted about me:

"Professor R. is a mad dog"

".....boasted of wanting a progressive instructor's head brought to his office in a bag"

"Scary dude"

"Tyrant"

"Nuke-crazed wingnut"

"Rabid Zionist"

"Posts on the Free Republic hate site"

"dresses like a redneck"

"Goofy English accent"

The students who said these things have not been disciplined because
A. free speech and all
B. I am a grown man, and
C. I take most of them as compliments.

[Rokurota]

described 20 classmates as having the "intellectual/maturity of a 3-year-old."

From my experiences, he may well be guilty of overestimating the maturity of many college students these days.

[Jean S]

You may right about the free speech issue but they're taking away $14,000 worth of schooling from him. If he refuses the discipline, they have every right to kick him out but not to steal $14,000 from him and the semester of schooling.

I didn't see it mentioned in this article, but local blogs and talk radio hosts who saw the blog before it was taken down say that no names of students or professors were ever mentioned.

[TheBigB]

I don't see it that way (purely MHO, of course.) In this case, I see it as a contract. The student agrees to pay the fee and obey the school's rules in exchange for the education. If the student willingly broke the rules, he has no right to recoup any fees. If there is some sort of formal school policy that allows for refunds in cases of expulsion, then he may have recourse. Otherwise, he's $#!+ outta luck.