College Tries to Be Cool but Runs Afoul of Facebook

Colleges that turn to Facebook as a creative way to reach out to students may run into a roadblock.

Officials of Ursuline College found that out when they tried to use the popular online social-networking service to create a Web page for the office of counseling and career services.

The page was up for six months before Facebook administrators took it down, says Meegan Cox, coordinator of experiential education at the Ohio college. When Ursuline officials asked why, she says,

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