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Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Answer Sheet - Student gets in trouble for e-mail on scooter parking

The Answer Sheet - Student gets in trouble for e-mail on scooter parking

Student gets in trouble for e-mail on scooter parking

Put this in the “what-were-they-thinking” category. “They” are officials at the University of Georgia, who took exception to a mocking e-mail sent by a student complaining about the location of available parking for scooters on campus. As reported by FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the school actually invites students to send positive and negative feedback to Parking Services, so student Jacob Lovell sent an e-mail Aug. 17 that said the following (note that I took out some language not allowed on the Post Web site):