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Tattoos, Tickets And Other Tawdry Behavior: How Universities Use Federal Law To Hide Their Scandals, Mary Margaret Meg Penrose
Tattoos, Tickets And Other Tawdry Behavior: How Universities Use Federal Law To Hide Their Scandals, Mary Margaret Meg Penrose
Meg Penrose
Tattoos, Tickets And Other Tawdry Behavior: How Universities Use Federal Law To Hide Their Scandals, Meg Penrose
Tattoos, Tickets And Other Tawdry Behavior: How Universities Use Federal Law To Hide Their Scandals, Meg Penrose
Meg Penrose
Please find attached a copy of my recently completed article entitled Tattoos, Tickets and Other Tawdry Behavior: How Universities Use Federal Law to Hide Their Scandals. The article challenges the manner in which schools and their athletic departments invert a federal student privacy law, FERPA, to protect unseemly behavior and athletic scandals. Four case studies are presented: the University of Maryland and one athlete's accumulation of over $8,200 in parking fines; North Carolina University's athletic department scandal involving parking tickets and improper benefits (for which, just yesterday, the head football coach was fired and the Athletic Director resigned); Florida State …