Intentional Grounding II: Can Public Colleges Monitor Athletes' Tweets?

cross posted at the Citizen Media Law Project)
Last week, The New York Times' "The Quad" college sports blog reported about the flip side of  my prior post on colleges limiting athletes' social media messages and postings: a bill currently pending in the Maryland state legislature would bar colleges from requiring athletes to allow school officials to monitor the athletes' social media activities. (Another bill (House version, Senate version) would place the same restriction on employers.)

UNR Scores Off the Court

The local newspaper here in Reno has published a profile of University of Nevada, Reno basketball player Dario Hunt which starts with a discussion of the blog that he contributes to, living.life.fearless.

Short Statement in The State

I was quoted over the weekend in an article in The State newspaper (and posted on their sports website, gogamecocks.com) on University of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier's decision to bar his players from using Twitter during the season.

Intentional Grounding: Can Public Colleges Limit Athletes' Tweets?

(cross posted at the Citizen Media Law Project)
An exercise we did Friday at Univeristy of Nevada, Reno's High School Journalism Day raised an interesting legal question: can a public university restrict its students' use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter?