No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws... |
| | Students do not lose their constitutional rights simply for being in school: their rights to free speech, assembly, press, and privacy are protected. These rights were first supported in the Tinker v. Des Moines decision, in which Justice Abe Fortas said, "School officials do not posess absolute authority over their students." Student civil liberties, though, carry a couple of exceptions: except for discrimination laws, which apply to all schools, only public schools are legally bound to protecting student civil liberties; and even public schools are allowed more leniency for upholding civil liberties in the interest of maintaining safe and learning-conducive environments. By retaining their civil liberties in school, however, students have the opportunity to learn as much about being diverse and responsible citizens in school as they learn about history and science inside the classroom. |
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
Princeton Admissions Dean Removed for Accessing Yale Admissions Info
Stephen LeMenager, the Princeton admissions dean who was caught gathering information about student applications through Yale's web site, was removed today. LeMenager claimed to be "testing Yale's website for vulnerabilities," he used the site to access information about students applying to both Yale and Princeton. Though LeMenager clearly behaved unethically, it seems obvious that Yale's admissions office was at least as unethical in their behavior of securing admissions information with only a birthday and social security information. This issue illustrates the problem with using the social security number as the de facto private password and user id: the more it is used as a unique id, the less secret it is and the more prone to abuse, as in this case. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: National]
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