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May 12, 2009
Santa Rosa Junior College is run by someone better suited to disapproving of the tshirts worn by high school students
There. I took the institution's name in vain. SRJC has threatened students who use the school's name or initials in private communications.
The school officials still don't see why it's a big deal that they're threatening students. However, their reasoning makes very little sense. "The reason for it is so the college doesn't get misrepresented in some way or make it look like the college is endorsing a product or issue," according to Santa Rosa Junior College President Robert Agrella. But that makes no sense. If a student uses an actual address from the university, wouldn't that risk be much greater? In other words, does the college really think that it's a bigger risk for someone to say something that the college does not endorse from nameSRCJ@gmail.com or name@santarosa.edu? Because it seems fine with the latter, but not the former. The whole thing smacks of college administrators who don't understand technology and have way too much free time on their hands.
"School officials" never do - but more typically they're high school officials who don't understand freedom of speech.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 12, 2009 8:32 PM