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Foundation Web Site Adds Social Network Features

It has been a while since I logged in to the Foundation Web Site to do more than look at the occasional message or new pictures for one of my contacts or groups. However, I went in today and found a *New* feature - at least it is new to me.
You can now add [...]

Drexel Fraternity Web Site Gets Them Suspended

Delta Sigma Phi chapter suspendedBy Aditi DubeyThe TriangleDrexel University
The alumni of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity decided to suspend the Gamma Chi chapter at Drexel University June 13 amid allegations of X-rated pictures of female Drexel students being posted on the group’s internal Web site.
The current undergraduate members have been removed from the fraternity house, located [...]

Facebook Can Ruin Your Life

Facebook Pictures Pose a Risk to FutureFacebook has caused extreme devastation in the life of a former resident advisor at the Ohio State University.Gabriel McDonald, a former student R.A. at the Columbus campus, was forced out of his position after someone turned him in for having pictures of underage drinking at a New Year’s Eve [...]

HelpTheHokies.com

A Chance for You to Be Part of Helping Those at VA Tech
Brothers-
I’m part of a massive benefit to raise money for the families of those lost in the VA Tech tragedy. If you can make it, I hope to see you there.
If not, please visit helpthehokies.com to send in a donation, or to join [...]

Johns Hopkins Reduces ‘Hood’ Party Penalty

Penalty reduced over ‘hood’ party: Hopkins student’s appeal OK’d, group saysSumathi ReddyThe Baltimore Sun
Johns Hopkins University officials have substantially reduced the punishment of a student suspended for posting online a “Halloween in the Hood” fraternity party invitation, according to an education foundation group that protested the university’s actions.
The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education [...]

Fraternity party stirs cries of racism

Sigma Chi at Johns Hopkins had a “Halloween in ‘da hood” party. Oddly, not everyone was amused.
Black Student Union members protested the fraternity’s actions, saying the appearance of a mock lynching highlighted the atmosphere of racial insensitivity and tension at the university.
Waving signs such as “Lynching is not a joke” and “Ban Sigma Chi,” dozens [...]

Thinking of a career in politics?

Better clean up your Facebook.

Univ. of Washington sophomore Hugh Foskett is running for State Representative as a Republican. Well, he seems to have the “Grand Old Party” part down, at least.
But then we saw the young Republican’s Facebook page. You can’t get to it unless you’re a member, but we know a member or two, [...]

Facebook plans to open its membership further

from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thursday, September 14, 2006
Facebook users are protesting plans by the wildly popular online social network to open its membership to all computer users, on campuses and off.
Reports of the expansion first emerged on Tuesday, and students have already started using the site to complain about the proposed change: Facebook [...]

A Scoop from Frat Boy News

New sorority rush rules… cover your facebook.Sorority members conceal Facebook profiles for recruitmentI’ve always felt that sorority rush rules were…to put it nicely…completely insane.This article only strengthens my convictions.Members of sororities are being required to conceal personal information on the social networking database Facebook during the recruitment process.
The Panhellenic Association, which oversees eight sororities on [...]

Facebook Discussion

Facebook and Other Social-Networking Sites Raise Questions for AdministratorsBy BROCK READ AND JEFFREY R. YOUNG
Campus officials can be forgiven for being a bit weary of Facebook: The social-networking Web site, beloved by students, keeps managing to bring attention - often unwanted - to its collegiate clientele.
In May, for example, officials of Northwestern University advised student [...]

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