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January 21st, 2009

Western Oregon University Censured By College Media Advisers

Western Oregon University has been censured by College Media Advisers, a group representing advisers of student-run publications, after the school fired an adviser and disciplined a student journalist for exposing a serious privacy flaw in its computer systems. From the Chronicle of Higher Ed:

The censure was provoked, the CMA said in a written statement, by the university’s heavy-handed response to the newspaper article. As reported in The Chronicle in 2007, a student, Blair W. Loving, wrote an article explaining that he had accidentally stumbled on a computer file with 100 names of applicants to the university’s College of Education, along with their Social Security numbers.

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By CJ Ciaramella