Harvard Secretly Photographs Undergrads
Harvard University is under fire from faculty and students for secretly photographing about 2,000 undergraduates in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study on classroom attendance.
The experiment was disclosed at a faculty meeting Tuesday and first reported in The Harvard Crimson student newspaper.
Harvard computer science professor Harry Lewis asked administrators about the study during the meeting, saying he learned about it from two colleagues.
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Is there an expectation of privacy in the classroom?
And I was seriously hoping for something a bit more.... salacious
Kids were seen...in their classrooms.
*DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUNNN!*
Surprised chipmunk has something to say about that*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpoJ8W53D8
* I think it's actually a woodchuck or something...anyhoo...
Go on...
WHO POSTED THIS???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....ure_photos
Yeah, *posture photographs.* any of Hillary?
Why does anyone pay attention to these tiny, unimportant places of alleged education?
Overrated and occasionally amusing, one should pity the poor dolts that send their spawn and money to "ivy league" schools.
Hell, you'd be better off buying and using meth.
Yum, chemicals.
Just to state the obvious, this seems a bit like a non-story.
non story
why can't school record own classrooms?
not sure why it needs to be secret, though