Students Punished for âVulgarâ Social Media Posts Are Fighting Back
A lawsuit against the University of Tennessee questions when schools can discipline students because of their online speech.
The University of Tennessee said it would expel Kimberly Diei for Instagram and Twitter posts it deemed inappropriate. Credit.Whitten Sabbatini for The New York Times
Feb. 5, 2021
To Kimberly Diei, a pharmacy graduate student at the University of Tennessee, her posts on Twitter and Instagram were well within the bounds of propriety. She was just having fun. âSex positive,â she called them.
Posting under a pseudonym, kimmykasi, she exposed her cleavage in a tight dress and stuck out her tongue. In homage to the rapper Cardi B, one of her idols, she made up some raunchy rap lyrics. By this week, she had gained more than 19,500 Instagram followers and 2,000 on Twitter.
Students punished for vulgar social media posts are fighting back, questioning when schools can discipline over online speech
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A pharmacy PhD student is suing the University of Tennessee for spying on her after she was KICKED OUT for posting vulgar photos on Instagram and her own Cardi-B-style rap lyrics
Kimberly Diei, 27, is suing the University of Tennessee for violating her freedom of speech after it tried to expel her in September
The doctoral candidate in nuclear medicine was accused of vulgar Instagram and Twitter posts including wearing a low-cut top and writing dirty rap lyrics
She was twice reported by an anonymous source to the public college s Health and Science Center (UTHSC) before a panel voted to expel her
Amid pandemic, Floridaâs Republican Legislature tilts hard right
GOP lawmakers are fast-tracking a slate of politically-divisive proposals long-sought by the Legislatureâs more conservative members.
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Florida Senator Wilton Simpson, R- Trilby, left, greets Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, right, during a joint session of the Florida Legislature, Tuesday, January 14, 2020. [ SCOTT KEELER | TAMPA BAY TIMES ]
Published Feb. 3
TALLAHASSEE â Amid a global pandemic, dozens of people traveled to and gathered inside a Florida House committee room last week to protest a bill that Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican leaders say is necessary to clamp down on violent protests.
It was a heated two-hour meeting. About 70 speakers lambasted the bill, which many of them said is an unnecessary attempt to squelch their right to peaceably assemble.
The Stetson University College of Law won the Trial Lawyers Section’s Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition for the 25th time in 38 years.
Team members Alicia Roddenberg, Samantha Simmons, Lauren Cleveland, and Tyler Hillier kept the winning streak alive after participating in the three-day competition, which was held virtually this year. Roddenberg was named Best Advocate.
“Our folks were fantastic,” exclaimed David A. Demers, one of the team’s three coaches. “It is no exaggeration that as individuals and as a group, they are among the most special people we have had the opportunity to coach.”
Susan Demers and Donald Anderson III also coached the teams. A second Stetson team of Magner Tiuso, Hillary Hazeltine, Bryan Lawlor, and Jasmine Mattear made it to the quarter final round of the competition.
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