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CBC News: The University of Calgary has placed a student on academic probation after he posted comments about an instructor on a Facebook group.

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The school placed Keith Pridgen, 19, on 24 months of academic probation -- essentially a stern warning -- in November. That was cut to six months after he appealed, Pridgen said Tuesday.

In August, Pridgen posted on the wall of a Facebook group critical of his former law instructor. The group was called "I no longer fear Hell, I took a course with [instructor's name]."

Pridgen wrote: "[Instructor's name] IS NO LONGER TEACHING ANY COURSES AT THE U OF C!!!!! Remember when she told us she was a long-term prof? Well actually she was only sessional and picked up our class at the last moment because another prof wasn't able to do it .. lucky us. Well anyways I think we should all congratulate ourselves for leaving a [instructor's name]-free legacy for future [law and society] students."

The group, along with Pridgen's comment, was later removed completely from Facebook.

It's unclear why the university decided to penalize Pridgen, and school officials wouldn't comment on the case.

"We had a right to free speech and ... we were simply just exercising it, and I wrote carefully. I made sure to not include any threatening statements or anything that was, to my knowledge, to be untrue," he said.

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Kirstie March 11, 2009, 11:04 AM

Why on earth is he on 24 months of academic probation for that?! He didn’t do ANYTHING wrong - he is entitled to dislike a professor, and it’s clearly a common sentiment if there’s a whole facebook group devoted to disliking her.

He did not curse, he did not post a personal insult, he simply expressed that he was glad she would not be returning to the university.

FYI, academic probation is more then a “stern warning”. If you’re an athlete, you’re kicked off of your team/teams. You can be thrown out of housing. If your GPA falls below a certain point or you receive ANY infraction (even a minor one, such as a noise violation or something) you can be THROWN OUT OF SCHOOL. It’s generally given out for serious offenses - documented drug use, multiple alcohol offenses, or when a student has extremely low grades. It’s a fairly serious situation.

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