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Teens Sue High School That Punished Them for Racy MySpace Pics
Two Indiana teenagers have sued their school district after they were punished for posing suggestive photos on MySpace. The girls, tenth-graders at Churubusco High School in Churubusco, Indiana, say they were humiliated after the school banned them from fall semester extracurricular activities, and forced them to apologize to the all-male Athletics Board — composed of varsity coaches — and attend three counseling sessions. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed the proposed class-action suit on behalf of the girls and all present and future students at the school who participate or may participate in extracurricular activities.
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“I’m a student at San Jose State University, as a Computer Science major, in San Jose, CA,” blogs Kyle Brady (right). There, in the last semester, he took Dr Beeson’s ‘Data Structures and Algorithms’. The homework was all code and had to be submitted by a certain date to an online submission/analysis system, he says, going on »»» Throughout the semester, I posted my correct/working code publicly (project descriptions returning sometime in the near future), after the due date, and didn’t think much of it – I thought exposing the code to the public could be helpful for some people, as well as a good employer reference for the future.
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