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_DictionaryGirl_

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

APR 30, 2007 11:01 AM



Reason #25 Why MySpace Will Never Cease to Fascinate Me: everyone -- especially, one would think, college-educated kids -- knows the dangers associated with making your after-hours life easily accessible, and yet it is not enough to squelch the mind-bogglingly intense urge to show the entire world just how fast you can pound gin tonics and mug for your best friend's camera.

Even so, there are limits, and I think this story not only hits that limit, but plows through it with a bulldozer and keeps on trucking. If no one ultimately wants to hire you because of your epic kegstand photoset series, that's one thing. But to not even be allowed that chance?

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."...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.

...Jane S. Bray, dean of the School of Education, accused Snyder of promoting underage drinking, the suit states.


Inconceivable. What really bothers me is that the dean cites "promoting underage drinking" as the reason for denying her a credential, and yet the article states that she's now 27, making her still in her mid-twenties at the time the picture was taken. Unless she's partying it up in the photo with a bunch of kids from her teaching intern work, I don't see how the issue of underage drinking is relevant. If the Millersville University School of Education has a problem with potential teachers who might get caught up in their own social lives and come to school hungover, that's valid (a little unfair, but valid). If Millersville University is actually a prestigious ninja school and Snyder went too far against the code with her pirate rendevous, that's valid, too. But why go tacking on hot-button buzzwords like underage drinking? It can't possibly be the problem.

I hope she wins the lawsuit. If she put in the time and did the work, she ought to have earned the credential. Leave it up to the schools themselves to determine if she's hireable. Times are tough on the job market for a drunken pirate these days, but I hope she succeeds.


_DictionaryGirl_ has no singular "drunken pirate" pictures on her Myspace profile; however, she does have one from 1988 where she's wearing a pirate hat at Disneyland, and it's right next to one where she's simply drunk. Alert the press!

AndersWolleck

AndersWolleck

Astoria, NY
February 2003

APR 30, 2007 11:08 AM

it was this guy


violentlyshaking

violentlyshaking

USA
April 2007

APR 30, 2007 11:14 AM

rediclous.

st_even

st_even

Milwaukee, WI
September 2006

APR 30, 2007 11:17 AM

As if teachers never ever ever ever drink in college.

RileyStClair

RileyStClair

Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

APR 30, 2007 11:17 AM

that is fucking retarded.
talk about overboard.
do university officials seriously not have better things to occupy their time with?

i'm increasingly glad i graduated college on the eve of the myspace phenom.

schroedingrscat

schroedingrscat

Toronto, ON
June 2005

APR 30, 2007 11:21 AM

Maybe their rationale is that she's so debauched, she might debauch the children she teaches? I don't know, it's still ridiculous and unfair.

almostfamous

almostfamous

NEWSWIRE

United Kingdom

APR 30, 2007 11:22 AM

christ, the world really is run by cunts, isn't it?

SilentRyan

SilentRyan

Phoenix, AZ
December 2006

APR 30, 2007 11:23 AM

Myspace is the devil. I had a friend fired from a Boy Scout summer camp as a result of her myspace.

Signon

Signon

Austin, TX
June 2005

APR 30, 2007 11:29 AM

SilentRyan said:
Myspace is the devil. I had a friend fired from a Boy Scout summer camp as a result of her myspace.



What was the nominal reason?

And if the dean had an issue with this, if he really thought the picture was inappropriate, shouldn't he have, say, asked her to take it down? Even that's silly, but at least it's not mind-blowingly stupid.

pariah002

pariah002

Pittsburgh, PA
July 2003

APR 30, 2007 11:31 AM

Wait, you are telling me that people actually DRINK in college and there may even be underage drinking in college?!?! WTF? NO WAY!!! Everyone that ever got hired out of college was a clean virgin who never even cursed.
Damn that drunk pirate!!! She is a curse on society!!!

mattbavougian

mattbavougian

Lincoln, NE
June 2003

APR 30, 2007 11:32 AM

i had teacher that drank in class or on their lunch break.

underage drinking my ass

goodpoltergeist

goodpoltergeist

Douglasville, GA
January 2007

APR 30, 2007 11:33 AM

devilry.

DucksAreCrazy

DucksAreCrazy

Lexington, KY
December 2006

APR 30, 2007 11:33 AM

Clearly she was just demonstrating her knowledge of the drinking requirements of ARRR!!! piracy. We need more teachers with this sort of insight.

RileyStClair

RileyStClair

Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

APR 30, 2007 11:37 AM

schroedingrscat said:
Maybe their rationale is that she's so debauched, she might debauch the children she teaches? I don't know, it's still ridiculous and unfair.



of course it is.
if an individual school doesn't want to offer her a job based on that picture, so be it (although i think that's completely stupid too), but it shouldn't disqualify her from getting a teaching certificate in the first place from her university.

although, i have to wonder who uses their real name on myspace anymore and has a public profile when they are old enough to be contemplating future employment? what happened to her is unfair, but i do kind of still want to smack her for being dumb.

Saraphine

Saraphine

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

APR 30, 2007 11:42 AM

yourfashionwar said:
although, i have to wonder who uses their real name on myspace anymore and has a public profile when they are old enough to be contemplating future employment? what happened to her is unfair, but i do kind of still want to smack her for being dumb.



Totally agreed. I mean, come on.

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

APR 30, 2007 11:50 AM

She should not have been hired because she was dressed like a pirate. End of story.

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

APR 30, 2007 11:51 AM

_DictionaryGirl_ said:
If Millersville University is actually a prestigious ninja school and Snyder went too far against the code with her pirate rendevous, that's valid, too. But why go tacking on hot-button buzzwords like underage drinking? It can't possibly be the problem.


Well, if they were ninjas, they certainly wouldn't admit it. That would defeat the purpose.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

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In all seriousness, this is a disturbing trend that sems to be leading us into a more repressed society. On the other hand, if it simply restores some dignity to the public space that its numerous private incursions have eroded, I'm not sure that it will ultimately be bad.

In this instance, though, I can see no possible excuse for using a photograph, however compromising (and this is not that compromising) as a valid reason for denying someone a degree they've actually earned.

Clio

Clio

SUICIDEGIRL

Netherlands

APR 30, 2007 12:10 PM

Only America.

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

APR 30, 2007 12:15 PM

yourfashionwar said:

schroedingrscat said:
Maybe their rationale is that she's so debauched, she might debauch the children she teaches? I don't know, it's still ridiculous and unfair.



of course it is.
if an individual school doesn't want to offer her a job based on that picture, so be it (although i think that's completely stupid too), but it shouldn't disqualify her from getting a teaching certificate in the first place from her university.

although, i have to wonder who uses their real name on myspace anymore and has a public profile when they are old enough to be contemplating future employment? what happened to her is unfair, but i do kind of still want to smack her for being dumb.



You wouldn't believe how many resumes I've gone through where people use an email address that, when put into Google, immediately returns their myspace page full of compromising pictures and professing their love of their drug of choice. It's astonishing. I don't know if these people don't know what's so easily found about them online, or if they just assume that the people reading the resume won't be technically savvy enough to punch a name or email address into Google.

As a sidenote, the number of people who use email addresses like xxsuperhottiegurlxx@whatever.com for their resumes is also astonishing. Make an email address for professional use, people!

DhD_No_Pants

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX
May 2006

APR 30, 2007 12:19 PM

Shalome said:
As a sidenote, the number of people who use email addresses like xxsuperhottiegurlxx@whatever.com for their resumes is also astonishing. Make an email address for professional use, people!



You know, it is kind of unprofessional of you to just post out my email and call me out like that on a public board.

Bodger0ne

Bodger0ne

United Kingdom
September 2004

APR 30, 2007 12:19 PM

i think thats well out of order, although i do find the idea on the dean looking at her myspcae a little more un-nerving...

wait a few weeks, and it'll come out as "Perverted Dean stalking students on Myspace!"

SickSickSinner

SickSickSinner

South Gate, CA
March 2007

APR 30, 2007 12:22 PM

i dont get it?

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

APR 30, 2007 12:23 PM

DhD_PillowPants said:

Shalome said:
As a sidenote, the number of people who use email addresses like xxsuperhottiegurlxx@whatever.com for their resumes is also astonishing. Make an email address for professional use, people!



You know, it is kind of unprofessional of you to just post out my email and call me out like that on a public board.



hah.

RileyStClair

RileyStClair

Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

APR 30, 2007 12:31 PM


Shalome said:
As a sidenote, the number of people who use email addresses like xxsuperhottiegurlxx@whatever.com for their resumes is also astonishing. Make an email address for professional use, people!



ahahaha *headdesk*
that's frightening.

i just assumed that after all this hoopla over employers finding people's facebook profiles and whatnot that everyone would be way more careful about what they put out there.

that's what i get for giving humanity any credit.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

APR 30, 2007 12:53 PM

Wait, they gave her an English degree instead? Why?

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