re: Adam Sasser under investigation by UGA for racial slur: He has been dismissed

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How do we know Sasser didn’t say it ending in an A and if he did, would his life not have been ruined?

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I can't tell if you're asking sarcastically... But I doubt it would have mattered to the university.

Perhaps it would have mattered in the court of public opinion?

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What organization would tolerate this from someone who is in effect its representative?

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So effectively, there is no personal space at all any more? It's one thing if you engage in a questionable act using someone else's resource (company e-mail, for example), or in someone else's uniform. It's quite another for a third party to police people on their own time/out of uniform/not using the third party's resources.

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So effectively, there is no personal space at all any more? It's one thing if you engage in a questionable act using someone else's resource (company e-mail, for example), or in someone else's uniform. It's quite another for a third party to police people on their own time/out of uniform/not using the third party's resources.

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Well once upon a time I was in the military and I can tell you that if a military officer does something to make a fool of himself or herself in public, being "off duty" and out of uniform is largely moot. There is no "off duty."

The guy was a scholarship member of a university athletic team. He was in public yelling something that would generally be considered very offensive and most importantly, violates university rules. I suppose you could say that people around him shouldn't "police" him...but ultimately it's his responsibility to manage his own behavior.

Not knowing the details of the Mississippi high school band halftime "show", I would say that it's equally classless. The band director should be fired if this was intended to make light of the police officers who were killed. Though honestly, I can't figure out the point of their "performance." It says something about them reenacting a scene from a movie?

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Well once upon a time I was in the military

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The military is an entirely different animal than the civilian. It is subject to all manner of additional rules and regulations that civilians are not.

Granted, the general trend in civilian life is toward ever-decreasing personal freedom and ever-increasing third party control, but there still is a split between the personal and the organizational.

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had been done by a drunk student not on scholarship, would he be dismissed?

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He wasn’t dismissed from school was he?

I've made only one post on this topic. How about you?