I confess I find this fascinating. Just try to imagine the personality who scours students’ personal web pages for niggling “offenses.” (I suppose such people are perfect for maintaining the mini-Orwell lands constructed on college campuses by academic leftists desperate to construct their own little marxist states on someone else’s dime, however.)

I’ve already discussed the Great Facebook Violations Inquest at NC State, led by Comrade Cousins. This UNC-Greensboro student writes in the UNCG Carolinian that UNCG has the Facebook Police, too, but so far as we know they haven’t gotten so power-mad as the FP’s in Pittsburgh, home of Duquesne:

Recently in Cone Hall a resident was charged with drinking in the dorm. Not at all a unique occurrence, except that no Housing employee ever witnessed her intoxicated or imbibing a single drop of alcohol. Instead, the resident in question took pictures of herself drinking and posted them online, conveniently linked to her Facebook account. From there her Community Advisor (UNCG’s phrase for RA) saw them and she was written up. …

Ryan Miner, a Duquesne University sophomore, is charged with hate speech for referring to homosexual acts as “subhuman” on his Facebook profile. His school says that violates the university code of conduct concerning hate speech.