Gosh the people who blog and comment on pages like the one above are well-read.
Anyways, I suppose for the most part I just want to acknowledge the existence of the lawsuit against UofL for expelling a student for her myspace postings.
This nursing student would probably be torn apart by a good psychiatrist or psychologist. She clearly gets a rise out of preaching the controversial and extreme, it's completely juvenile. I read her most recent blog post on the pdf file attached to the article above. Talk about a sour, clueless girl. Why the hell is she in nursing school.
One comment I saw mentioned UofL was probably afraid this chick would go Va Tech on campus. That is totally understandable, considering the attitudes she expressed on her blog. I found her fb page and saw some of her pics, she's a euro-goth nerdy chick, all into snakes and rats and crap. But the thing is she has this sweet face. A face that you could totally see in nursing.
UofL totally screwed up. This chick is a b* for trying to get bank off of our public university, with all of the budget crap going on. Yeah, they probably should reinstate her. However, are universities really not allowed to kick students out based on the moral opinion of the school's mission statement? If it was a private university, would there be a problem? This isn't a discrimination issue, after all, and its not like she was arrested or fined for practicing free speech. After all, universities may tolerate free speech, such as KKK people coming onto campus to promote themselves, but that doesn't come without plenty of cops to monitor the situation. If they had the option to have a cop escort her around campus, maybe they'd feel more comfortable about reenrolling her after becoming aware of her extremist opinions.
UofL didn't have to expel Yoder, of course. By posting her crazy opinions on myspace, she was making a huge risk, the posts were public, for crying out loud. Once the school faculty read the posts, there went her potential LOR writers. And now that the media knows about her case, how hard will it be for every potential employer she may have had to realize they definitely don't want this woman as their nurse. After all, who says employers can't deny hire because of moral opinion. And even if she did get hired somewhere, how long would it be before one of her patients were like "her name sounds familiar..." There's no point in her trying to finish her degree now. She seems to like blogging, and having a publicized name definitely could help her if she wanted to go into writing. She doesn't need UofL to do that, I hope her case gets dropped.
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