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I find attitudes like this fascinating. If they were within their legal right to do this, that explains why the resident deans are complaining instead of suing.

When did the fact something is permitted become reason to shut down or marginalize discussion on if it should happen and/or be permitted?

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Actually the resident deans aren't complaining at all. They don't have tenure, and so they could be terminated if they spoke out against administrative policy. It's the professors who are complaining.

Some people are incapable of understanding that some rule out there are wrong and should be questioned. They cannot actually understand how people do this questioning. I guess they sleep easy at night knowing all is right with the world, because those lawyers are on our side.

Skipping over the pathetic passive aggressive tone, this isn't about some repressed part of society, this is simply a employer/employee relationship.

There's nothing wrong with an employer doing this to protect the organziation. This is exactly what is happening, it's an investigastion into misconduct, not some big civil liberties case.

When you send email using you work account you should not expect that email to have the same privacy as your own email might.

I am perfectly capable of understanding, and the university are in the right, they have every right to investigate what happened.

Skipping over the pathetic whinging about tone, this is not simply an employer/employee relationship.

The President and Fellows were charged in 1650 with "the advancement of all good literature, arts, and sciences". That can be boiled down to: veritas. There is nothing to support selfish deans avoiding public scrutiny of their poor decisions.

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