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Newspaper advisers censure college for handling of computer-security exposé

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The College Media Advisers, representing people who advise student-run publications, has censured Western Oregon University for its handling of a 2007 episode in which a student journalist wrote a story on how he stumbled upon a computer file containing sensitive information, including Social Security numbers of some 100 people, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education report.

The journalist was reprimanded and the school newspaper adviser was fired after the incident. The censure was provoked, the CMA said, by the university’s “heavy-handed response” to the newspaper article.

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