[Frank_Discussion]

Um, this is vaguely disturbing. She was participating in legal drinking activities, and her MySpace picture shows her doing so - she lost her teaching certificate for this?

[Holicheese]

And she was 26 at the time. Its not like she was 18 and doing jager bombs off another girls stomach.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Of course, it’s for the children.

[coloradan]

The Thought Police are alive and well in the ehjookayshunul establishment.

[basil]

Something doesn’t add up here......

[NeilGus]

This would be disturbing if true but I want to hear the whole story.

This sounds like a story planted by her lawyer on the trial lawyer channel (NBC). Remember that they had that story about exploding gas tanks (only they had to fake the explosion for good TV footage).

[Hydroshock]

Danged uncricket!!

[dawn53]

I’m not going to discuss the “ethics” of it, but college students better wake up. They are leaving a “profile” on many online sites, i.e. MySpace, Facebook, gaming forums, etc, and employers are checking the sites before they consider hiring them. Then the kid wonders why he didn’t get the job.

[NYFriend]

If colleges didn’t award degrees to people who acted like idiots in public and did embarrassing things, we wouldn’t have any graduates (including me). Now I think people are making a big mistake with My Space. I have friends and family that are so desperate for attention that they are willing to show everyone who will watch how they behave at their worst (like you might behind closed doors with your close friends).

So you don’t have the good sense to know that everyone in the world isn’t your friend. OK, not grounds for being denied a degree you otherwise earned. Maybe grounds for not being eventually hired, but that’s for employers to decide.

If this party was two years ago, she was 25. Old enough to drink. I’d sure like to hear the schools side of this story.

[Tallguy]

My nephew is a student a Millersville. The university warned them that if they so much as received a DUI conviction that they wouldn’t receive their teacher’s certificates. This story is entirely believable based on that.

[HamiltonJay]

It is.. but the need to put up a page on the internet with pictures of yourself doing silly things for anyone to stumble upon isn’t exactly smart either.

[PAR35]

From the story, I would have guessed it was a church-affiliated school, and was planning to defend them. Then I clicked on the school, and saw it was part of the state system.

They don’t seem to mount much of a defense: “Although the University respects Ms. Snyder’s opinion, these allegations only provide a single perspective of this academic situation.” and “educational decisions are based ... not solely on a student’s personal website or social networking site. “
http://www.millersville.edu/announcements/snyder.php