Okay, I think I know what’s happening here.
When the United States invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 terror attacks, we drove out the Taliban and the dreaded religious police, who executed teachers, banned music and jailed men for trimming their beards.
Apparently some of the religious police settled in Millersville, Pennsylvania.
A woman denied a teaching degree on the eve of graduation because of a MySpace photo has sued the university.
Millersville University instead granted Stacy Snyder a degree in English last year after learning of her Web-published picture, which bore the caption “Drunken Pirate.”
“I dreamed about being a teacher for a long time,” said Snyder, 27, who now works as a nanny.
The photo, taken at a 2005 Halloween party, shows Snyder wearing a pirate hat while drinking from a plastic “Mr. Goodbar” cup. It was posted on her own MySpace site.
Although Snyder apologized, she learned the day before graduation that she would not be awarded an education degree or teaching certificate.
They hate us for our freedom.
Mad AS HELL AND I... | 01-May-07 at 9:19 pm | Permalink
How could they give her an English degree instead of a teaching one. Does it mean english majors are allowed to be drunk pirates?
The washingtonpost had an interesting column on this story this morning:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/05/myspace_photo_costs_teacher_ed.html
Brent | 23-Jul-07 at 11:32 pm | Permalink
If the damn federal gov’t hadn’t started this whole idea of a “war on drugs” we wouldn’t have the attitude that anyone who ingests a controlled substance is sub-human. This notion is ridiculous especially when it comes to Marijuana, everybody knows that fat cats in washington are selling out to the Alcohol lobbyists like crazy. Yet weed, the only, i repeat only drug that is 100% natural when you use it is demonized. almost every other drug, Alcohol, cocaine, heroin, advil, tylenol etc. are man made, somewhere in the process. FUCK you politicians! oh except Ron Paul!