Student faces Facebook consequences

Posted on March 11, 2008 at 5:17 pm.
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Ryerson UniversityA First-year student in Ryerson University,Canada is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group in Facebook. He has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the group and another 146 counts, one for each classmate who used the site. The student faces an expulsion hearing today before the engineering faculty appeals committee. If he loses that appeal, he can take his case to the university’s senate.

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2 Responses to “Student faces Facebook consequences”

  1. kamal on November 1st, 2008 3:14 pm

    But isn’t it unjust and too-authoritative on the part of institute authority ??

  2. venus on November 1st, 2008 3:42 pm

    Yes. It is unjust.

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