Flutterecho writes "A sophomore at Valdosta State teaching hospital was expelled after criticizing his university's plan to build two new parking garages with student fees. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald Zaccari, the university's president, wrote that he 'present a clear and present danger to this campus' and referred to an image on the student's Facebook page which contained a threatening description. 'As additional demonstration of the threat posed by Barnes, the deed referred to a link he posted to his Facebook profile whose accompanying graphic read: "Shoot it. Upload it. Get famous. Project limelight* is inquiring for the next big thing. Are you it?" It doesn't mention that Project public attention was an online digital video contest and that "shoot" in that context meant "record."' In a post-Virginia Tech world, has health center surveillance of online identities gone too far?"

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