Marquette suspends dental student for blog comments

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

[Veto!]

In addition to informing the student of his suspension and his need to repeat his fall semester, which costs $14,000 in tuition, Lynch threatened the student with expulsion if he continued to post material on "any blog sites that contain crude, demeaning and unprofessional remarks."

Pretty harsh. I wonder what Marquette did about the band of students who went from polling place to polling place in the 1999 election and voted for Gore time after time. Their voter fraud was reported in the press, the students claimed they were only trying to show how easy it was to cheat, but I don't recall whether the university took any action against them. Probably the city of Milwaukee, state of Wisconsin, and the feds were merely amused at the prank.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

"B. I am a grown man, and C. I take most of them as compliments."

That's great stuff! I always liked profs or other people of authority that wouldn't get all whiny in the face of such criticism. If the prof in this case had responded with a simple "kiss my ass", the issue would be dead.

[TheBigB]

I like "Nuke-crazed wingnut" the best. That would be a good screen name. =)

[HawaiianGecko]

 

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

I agree. It never ceases to amaze me how few people really understand what the 1st amendments means in regard to free speech.  Personally, I think the University blew this out of proportion (unless there is more to the story than posted), but as far as abridging this kids' rights to freedom of speech, it just simply didn't happen

 

[Rebelbase]

Wow, they got ticked at you!

[Jean S]

I see it as a contract.

MU says he violated the contract, the student says he didn't.

Courts judge contract disputes all the time.

[TheBigB]

Certainly, that's the way it is. The courts will decide if the contract was violated or not.

[Thebaddog]

It all kind of makes me think that the comments were right.

[SmoothTalker]

What ever happened to academic freedom? Snicker, snicker, snicker.

[Chode]

do sober what you say you will do when you are drunk, that will teach you to keep your mouth shut...

[republicandiva]

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

The Private University thing is a fallacy. Though the majority of their funding may be through "non-governmental" sources, I'd be willing to bet Marquette receives more than its share of federal funds. My brother is a director at a so-called "private university" and can't believe how often he's in Washington lobbying Senators Kohl and Feingold for more money.