Great work in the Columbus Dispatch on FERPA

If you cover colleges or even care, this is a must read

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/05/31/FERPA_MAIN.ART_ART_05-31-09_A1_VFE0G7F.html?sid=101

Fantastic work by the Columbus Dispatch...

 

Maryland wanted $35,000 for materials that half the schools provided for free.

 

Excellent piece. The lack of M&A activity means Justice has lots of time for investigations.

 

I've been listening to schools cite Buckley for 15 years, so to track down Buckley and have him say this wasn't the intention of his legislation is long overdue. Same goes for HIPAA -- lots of wide interpretations in coaches not answering injury questions because of that ...

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/70286/

 

How about the Terrelle Pryor reference (not by name) in the last of the OSU-specific story? Pretty good work.

 

Excellent work. It's about time somebody exposed this for what it is: a convenient shield.

 

On Detroit radio today they were just shocked that tOSU was outed by the Columbus paper (something along the lines of assuming it was a Michigan "witch hunt" and being pleasantly surprised).

I'll welcome the day when it's not assumed that hometown papers are necessarily homer papers.

Nice work.

 

For immediate release:

Columbus, Ohio -- Seven football players from The Ohio State University were named to the Academic All-Big Ten team on Tuesday. We wish we could say who they are, but we must follow the strictest possible interpretation of FERPA.

Wait a second, they don't do this when it's positive news?

 

Blitz should be delighted.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/databases/school/ferpa.html?appSession=58390154706197

 

But getting involved in the steroids issue by scheduling lengthy hearings with baseball players and officials was more important?

 

Jake, I'm sure those schools get written consent from all those athletes before the release specific information about their academic status.