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Originally posted by hoosier
I don't understand how the Student Life Office can release pictures and videos at this point in this incident.
It doesn't appear that the chapter has officially been charged with anything, and the investigation is underway.
How can they seek publicity by releasing this stuff?
The common release from the typical campus is "We can't comment on this, since it involves confidential student data. Federal law prevents us from giving out any data."
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Hoosier, I believe that "Student Life" is the title of the (independent) student newspaper at Washington U. It's not a university office. It appears to me that the paper got the pictures and videos in more or less the same way that newspapers, TV stations, and magazines all over the country sometimes get infomation -- somebody gave it to them. Just who their source was we may never know. (Think of news stories that include phrases like, "memos obtained by the Wall Street Journal," "a draft of the report was obtained by ABC news," "copies of the mayor's expense reports, which were obtained by _______, " and on and on. Some of it, yeah, comes from Freedom of Information requests and similar actions on the state or local level -- and usually the news media mentions that fact, but some of it comes from other sources. Leaks, y' know.)