Does student journalism trump campus computer rules?
Relations between a college administration and the student editors of the campus newspaper are often less than cordial, especially when the students make the administrators look bad. When a student at Western Oregon University came across a file on the campus network in 2007 that contained names, Social Security numbers, grade point averages, and other data from former students, he wrote it up. The school responded by (secretly) searching the newspaper’s offices and eventually failing to rehire the paper’s adviser. Another student was allegedly almost expelled. According to the school, the issue wasn’t as much about the revelation of the security breach as about violations of the school’s computer policy. A school VP told the Chronicle of Higher Education that the student “had violated computer-use policies because he accessed the file while logged onto the network under another student’s ID and then made a copy of the file.
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