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Professor Suspended After Joke About Killing Students on Facebook
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Vince(!)
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Date: March 05, 2010 05:46PM
Gloria Gadsden, a sociology professor at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, says she was suspended last week after updating her Facebook status with complaints about work that alluded to violence.
In January, she wrote: "Does anyone know where I can find a very discrete hitman? Yes, it's been that kind of day…" Then in February: "had a good day today. DIDN'T want to kill even one student. :-). Now Friday was a different story."
Gadsden says she posted the comments in jest, on a profile she thought could only be seen by friends and family. She says officials were notified of the posts by a student -- even though she says she had no students in her "friend" list.
Just a Bad Day
"I was just having a bad day, and I was venting to family and friends," says Gadsden, who says she didn't realize her comments could be read by the public after Facebook relaxed its privacy standards in December. "My friends and family knew I was being facetious. They knew I wasn't targeting anyone."
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/facebook-firings-employees-online-vents-twitter-postings-cost/story?id=9986796&cid=yahoo_pitchlist
In January, she wrote: "Does anyone know where I can find a very discrete hitman? Yes, it's been that kind of day…" Then in February: "had a good day today. DIDN'T want to kill even one student. :-). Now Friday was a different story."
Gadsden says she posted the comments in jest, on a profile she thought could only be seen by friends and family. She says officials were notified of the posts by a student -- even though she says she had no students in her "friend" list.
Just a Bad Day
"I was just having a bad day, and I was venting to family and friends," says Gadsden, who says she didn't realize her comments could be read by the public after Facebook relaxed its privacy standards in December. "My friends and family knew I was being facetious. They knew I wasn't targeting anyone."
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/facebook-firings-employees-online-vents-twitter-postings-cost/story?id=9986796&cid=yahoo_pitchlist
Re: Professor Suspended After Joke About Killing Students on Facebook
Posted by:
ferfux
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Date: March 05, 2010 06:31PM
wow that sucks. Who ratted out the prof? There are days I just get bored and WALK out of class. Maybe because of the prof maybe because of the "i need to ask a million questions and show how smart i am kid"