Lawyers' Advice to Colleges About Internet Gossip: Educate, Don't Regulate

By Eric Kelderman

Toronto

With the proliferation of Internet sites for personal expression, colleges have become entangled in numerous high-profile scandals in recent years after students or faculty members have posted mean-spirited rumors or salacious photos online.

But the way to curb that trend is not to enforce more-restrictive speech codes or chase down the source of every anonymous rumor, several higher-education legal experts said on Wednesday during a panel session at the annual conference here of the