- A student re-attached a fallen note of support to a staff member’s door.
- Then her university investigated her for harassment.
FROSTBURG, Md., Dec. 14, 2020 — How far will a university administration go to retaliate for bad press?
Student reporter Cassie Conklin must have ruffled some administrative feathers for covering criticism of the Maryland university’s COVID-19 response for the student newspaper.
After video showed her re-attaching a fallen note to a staff member’s door during a campus protest, she found herself the target of a baseless harassment investigation by the administration...
...Administrators accused Conklin of slipping a threatening note under the door of the staff member who was the subject of the student demonstrations and Conklin’s Oct. 21 story.
The university said they had video evidence to prove the allegations (the video actually proves Conklin’s innocence), and directed the newspaper to investigate and punish Conklin...Read all.
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