What do you do with a drunken sailor?
What do you do with a drunken sailor? Take her degree and teaching credentials. A twenty-seven year old’s picture of herself drinking from a Mr. Goodbar cup, and wearing a pirate’s hat, “promotes underage drinking” according to Millersville University.
Some might say the RIAA’s anti-piracy campaign is involved, but I think they just don’t like the Beastie Boys poster in the background. Or maybe they’re Butterfingers fans.
Real question: what do we do with a drunken dean? Because Millersville’s School of Education dean Jane S. Bray must have been on something when she took that innocuous photo as anything other than someone at a Hallowe’en party.
Hat tip to Tom Smith.
- Student Denied Degree Due to MySpace Picture
- “Stacy Snyder, a 27-year-old student at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, was denied her education degree (and the accompanying teaching certificate) after student-teacher advisors and university officials discovered a picture of the candidate on her MySpace page. The picture, which portrays Snyder drinking from a plastic Mr. Goodbar cup and wearing a pirate hat at a 2005 Halloween party, is accompanied by the caption “Drunken Pirate.” Despite the fact that (a) Snyder was of legal drinking age at the time of the picture; (b) the picture was posted on an outside, non-university website; and (c) the drinking captured in the picture happened in a private, non-university setting, Millersville officials decided that the picture alone was enough to cost Snyder her degree and teaching certificate, despite the fact that Snyder was on the dean’s list and received positive evaluations for her final student/teacher evaluation in every area except for ’professionalism.’”
- Drunken Sailor at Wikipedia
- “Drunken Sailor is a famous traditional sea shanty also known as What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? It is now rarely called by its other name Sailor’s Holiday.”
- Your space is my space
- “Just in case you are wondering, demon alcohol has never passed my lips, and I certainly would not allow a photo to be taken of me wearing pirate hat.”
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