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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
At many institutions, the students AND instructors/faculty member(s) in charge would be subject to disciplinary action.
ETA: No TAs with a grain of brain and ethics would think up such an exercise for undergraduates. But if they did, they would be smart enough to consult the sociology department and Institutional Review Board (IRB) beforehand.
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I have to disagree a little bit. I have done two such experiments for sociology classes in high school and college. They were more open ended though. They did not specifically tell us to show porn to people or anything like that, but we were all supposed to do something deviant in public. The instructors and TA's told us before we began, that if students broke any laws, those same students would be fully liable. So if people get arrested, beat up, or punished for their actions in the experiment, it's their own fault.
In this case, I could care less to a point. I'm kind of glad that those Chi Phi pledges are seeing their first amendment rights cut up and used against them. I kind of think about what would have happened a few decades ago if some Black students, greek or not, had pulled that same kind of stunt with a Playboy or something. Even if it was perfectly legal, I shudder to think of how severely they would have been dealt with by students and staff alike.
Sorry, T La Rock, LL killed it. 
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