The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld the University of Minnesota’s right to discipline a student in a mortuary sciences class who made jokes about a cadaver and made threats on her Facebook page.
In a series of posts in 2009, Amanda Tatro first posted a reference to a cadaver:
Amanda Beth Tatro Gets to play, I mean dissect, Bernie[2] today. Lets see if I can have a lab void of reprimanding and having my scalpel taken away. Perhaps if I just hide it in my sleeve . . . .
In a subsequent Facebook post, Tatro appears to have threatened someone…
Amanda Beth Tatro: Who knew embalming lab was so cathartic! I still want to stab a certain someone in the throat with a trocar though.[4] Hmm..perhaps I will spend the evening updating my “Death List #5” and making friends with the crematory guy. I do know the code . . . .
After the posts, the University banned her from campus for a time, then flunked her out of the course.
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