U. Oregon Student Senator Believes Being Mocked On Tumblr Is “Criminal”
Student Senate Vice President Miles Sisk has reportedly contacted the cyber police, saying that consequences will never be the same.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
News flash to student senators: Being mocked on Tumblr is not ‘cyber-bullying’
So here’s my conflict of interest: I’m a native Oregonian and my dad is a Duck. As in, a University of Oregon alum.
Whenever the university and its famously stoned student population makes the news, my ears perk up, like when the administration threatened to expel a student for making a lame sex joke or banned nude art classes in public, citing the “safety” of the models. (The prudish spirit of the Methodist missionaries who settled my hometown apparently lives on at UO.)
The student senate is getting in on the ridiculous-overreaction business now, trying to shut down a couple of Tumblr pages that, as far as I can tell, gently mock the senate, its members and some campus advocacy groups.
As reported by the Daily Emerald, Vice President Miles Sisk referred to a closed meeting to discuss the “crime” of “cyber-bullying” against senate members:
The people running these blogs are criminals,” Sisk said. “Frankly, I’m done with it.” …
“In response to this, I have communicated with a friend of mine. He has acquired the IP addresses of those blogs. If these blogs are not shut down within the next 48 hours I am turning these in to the administration. They are able to connect these IP addresses to the people running them.”
What are these “criminal” blogs, you ask? The senate isn’t saying, but the Daily speculates that it’s ASUO Conservative Problems and ASUO Progressive Problems – “repeat offenders” from last year.
News flash to student senators: Being mocked on Tumblr is not ‘cyber-bullying’ (The College Fix)