Harvard Search of E-Mail Stuns Its Faculty Members

Colleges & Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>"Bewildered, and at times angry, faculty members at Harvard criticized the university on Sunday after revelations that administrators secretly searched the e-mail accounts of 16 resident deans in an effort to learn who leaked information about a student cheating scandal to the news media." ...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/us/harvard-e-mail-search-stuns-faculty-members.html?hp&_r=1&%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/us/harvard-e-mail-search-stuns-faculty-members.html?hp&_r=1&&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>More: <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HARVARD_CHEATING_EMAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-11-13-07-29%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HARVARD_CHEATING_EMAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-11-13-07-29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Wow, not cool.</p>

<p>I’ve heard bad things about the politics at Harvard and how it’s such a bureaucracy. It’s one of the few reasons being at Harvard wouldn’t be complete and absolute heaven for me if I somehow did get in.</p>

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<p>The public deserved to know about the cheating scandal. It proves that not everyone at Harvard is superhuman. In this matter, I feel sorry for the people whose expectation of privacy was violated.</p>

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<p>I think the outrage is silly. If you are employed by any organization, it’s a given that any email you send or receive on their servers may be examined.</p>