Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

University of Western Ontario has accepted me as a candidate for their Master of Journalism program!


I have always been exceptionally interested in news stories concerning relationships between media and the society. I blame it on my background in communications. Please see Student faces expulsion for Facebook study group.

Education in the virtual world has altered the conventional concept of what an education is supposed to be for years. Distance education and WebCT are only the beginning. Even Second Life is being used for purposes of business management, medical practices, and so much more. Who would have thought? Establishing study groups on Facebook should be an accepted norm. How ironic that we let Facebook applications that indirectly promote pornography and illegal activities run wild among users, yet Ryerson University is kicking a student out of school for a cause that's actually worth praising.

In a way, educational institutions are like a form of government. The students, or citizens, rather, must abide to certain rules regardless whether they want to or not. These rules are not laws. Rather, they are preferences established by the educational institutions or the government. Even if a student/citizen participates in a good cause, the University/government would still try to impose regulations on it. Perhaps Ryerson University students could have a system that allows students to vote for their teaching methods. After all, they do pay a ridiculous amount of money for tuition fees.