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…4A - Thursday, Novernber 1, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.cam 4A - Thursday, November 1, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of…
…-point discussion. Big Bird and empty chairs shouldn't even mat- ter in a world of endless wars and indefinite detention, of Arab Springs and falling dicta- tors. In a world where rights are limited by sexual…
…, attractiveness may also be perceived as a negative trait, espe- cially for women. As anengineer, I've certainly heard that female students who appear to spend more time car- ing abouthow theylook are probably less…
… consider the University of the faculty senate were improvements made. Michigan's failure to establish a culture that Worse yet, these problems had been known for values student privacy. almost a decade. The…
… Family Educational Rights and Pri- A second example of the University's fac- vacy Act, which governs the privacy of edu- ile attitude to student privacy occurred when cational records, is a largely…
… obligation to protect the ensure the university modifies its behavior. privacy of its graduate student instructors, It can do so only by threatening to remove whose teaching often forms a crucial part of…
… from an FOIA request by FERPA, ment is going to deprive a university of funding since they constituted educational records for for biomedical research and student financial those who teach as part of…
… their educational aid over a privacy violation? According to the program. When I contacted the University's Student Press Law Center, there hasn't been a legal counsel about this last year, they admitted…
… single case of a university losingsuch funding. that they failed to screen for this. Had FERPA Courts have ruled that students whose privacy been stronger - if, for example, the University rights have been…
… accidental disclosure of students' standard than the federal regulations any- grades in a single course, while unfortunate, way. We don't need more red tape or more shouldn't lead to hundreds of lawsuits…