You should really read this article. It quite clearly shows what can happen to a student in a school without an impartial judicial process. This is a dental student, probably 20-25 years old who is being suspended from school for one year because of a few posts in his non school supported personal blog. In today’s p2p free sharing world many people have begun posting everything that comes to mind. I heard from my sister the other day that people at Dominican University often use Live Journal as a way to hash out difficulties and repair friendships in a low risk environment. This kind of free sharing lays at the foundation of what the internet has become. The web is no longer a strictly academic environment, but has become instead a place where ideas (bad and good) can be shared with an audience with virtually no stage fright.
This over reaction by the administration at Marquette is comparable requiring women to wear skirts or banning rock music, and should not be tolerated by the student body.