Controlled representation?

0 Comments | USA TODAY, July, 2008 | by Kyle Oppenhuizen

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Does policy violate privacy?

The University of Iowa's social network monitoring of the athletic department goes into effect Friday and an American Civil Liberties Union official tells USA TODAY the new policies could start what he called a slippery slope (stories on 1C and 9C).

Is it a violation of privacy?

"If athletes can embarrass the university with their comments, how about just students?" says Ben Stone, executive director of the ACLU of Iowa. "This presents the beginning of what will likely be an ongoing discussion about how much control public universities have over their students."

Officials at three universities say it is less an issue of privacy than responsibility.

*Ohio State senior...

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