Drunken Pirate MySpace pic costs student her degree

[OCBucksFan]

A MySpace Photo Costs a Student a Teaching Certificate

What shall you do with a drunken sailor? Well, if you're Millersville University of Pennsylvania, you deny her a degree, and you get sued for doing so.

Stacy Snyder, an aspiring teacher who is now 27 years old, was set to graduate last year from Millersville's School of Education. But just days before commencement, campus officials discovered Ms. Snyder's MySpace page -- which featured a photograph of the student wearing a pirate hat and sipping from a plastic cup. The picture's caption read "Drunken Pirate."
http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/354/203449ijczmyspacea27fuldg0.jpg

More proof MySpace is the work of the Devil! Oh yeah, and hot or not? :tongue2:

 

[Big Papa]

A MySpace Photo Costs a Student a Teaching Certificate




More proof MySpace is the work of the Devil! Oh yeah, and hot or not? :tongue2:

Definitely, not hot. Saw her on the Today Show this morning.

 

[DEBuckeye]

Not hot at all. But I'm with her- I'd sue them senseless if that happened to me.

 

[Thump]

Arrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh me matey!!!

 

[sandgk]

That'll learn 'em.

 

[iambrutus]

arrrgh, this is some bullshit

 

[THEWOOD]

I would be very pissed off if I did not get a degree because there were pictures of me on a website drinking. She is not breaking any law. It is absurd how far this Myspace things has gone.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

they refused to award her an education degree and the teaching certificate that came along with it. (Instead they issued her a degree in English.)

Goes to show how much they value an English degree.

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

I would be very pissed off if I did not get a degree because there were pictures of my on a website drinking. She is not breaking any law. It is absurd how far this Myspace things has gone.

I think piracy is against the law, actually.

 

[methomps]

How is she supposed to sex up the sixth graders now?

 

[Thump]

I'd swab her poop deck.

 

[BB73]

I'd swab her poop deck.

That's a short walk on your plank, though.



(Note - this is only posted based on prior Thump posts - I swear!)

 

[Wingate1217]

How can anyone determine that the individual is drinking alcohol, much less drunk in the picture?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Millersburg's response

 

[lvbuckeye]

sounds like bullshit to me, but if she signed any kind of conduct clause when she enrolled (like they have a Liberty or any other number of private christian schools) then she's pretty much screwed...