Kent State Bans its Athletes from using Facebook but no shots fired yet in Ohio

[mandy]

Kent State University has elected to ban its student athletes from placing profiles on Facebook.com. Reasons given range from concern over the safety of the athletes, who can be easily stalked using the personal information often found on Facebook profiles, to concern over the image of the university, given some of the info students choose to share in what amounts to a very public forum.

Free speech issues abound, of course, but it's hard to blame any school for being worried about its image if its most public representatives might be on display engaging in drug use, underage drinking, sex, or hazing...

full article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060626-7133.html