Another SNW Event Gone Bad

The twist at Seattle University is the school officials stepped in to warn students that were planning a party Memorial Day weekend through Facebook invitations. Details at the Chronicle of Higher Ed and Seattle Times.

Students, obviously, think their First Amendment rights were violated. Sounds a lot like they opened up way to much information about the party -- to the point university officials let them know they could get in trouble with the school's code of conduct. Scared, the students cancelled.

Payoff quote from the SeaTimes:

Butterworth said the university administration monitors sites like Facebook only when something is specifically brought to their attention, and that they are acting in the Jesuit tradition of "cura personalis" — care of the whole person.

"Our education doesn't really stop when students leave the classroom," Butterworth said. "In some ways, it begins there."

Butterworth is the dean of students, who arrived at the doorstep of another Facebook-planned and advertised party earlier.

Don't ask, don't tell? Maybe. Think about it for a minute. If you told your parents in some graphic detail what you were about to do at your "douchebag" party (their label for the event), what would your parent's reaction have been.

Be practical with your SNW's, kids.