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anobserver2

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11. What I am trying to say to Yale is this: You are wrong - because....

Reply to anobserver2 (Reply #10)

Tue Jul 11, 2023, 01:47 PM

Jul 2023

GHW Bush is deceased. You - Yale - while under FERPA - can have additional restrictions, BUT, you can't extend those to people who are dead. You can be FERPA and extend your additional privacy restrictions ONLY TO YOUR LIVING ALUMNI and NOT TO YOUR DEASED ALUMNI because the deceased do not get to acculumate additional rights like your living alumni do under FERPA. Therefore, I think this is a question that should be litigated. But the bottom line is this...

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How To Fake a College Degree All the Way to the White House (FERPA, legacy admit, GHW Bush, Yale) [View all] anobserver2 Jul 2023 OP

You're wrong. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 #1

What are you even talking about? anobserver2 Jul 2023 #3

FERPA now the title anobserver2 Jul 2023 #17

You may remember the thread I wrote when GHW Bush died ... anobserver2 Jul 2023 #2

Yale isn't subject to FOIA Fiendish Thingy Jul 2023 #4

Well, Yale is subject to FERPA - they receive federal funds. anobserver2 Jul 2023 #5

Have you found a lawyer willing to sue? Nt Fiendish Thingy Jul 2023 #21

Thread title fixed now anobserver2 Jul 2023 #18

Here is my point - and I think this would have to be litigated anobserver2 Jul 2023 #6

A journalist then reminded me of this... anobserver2 Jul 2023 #7

FERPA says: YES, you can get a transcript of a DECEASED STUDENT anobserver2 Jul 2023 #8

Yale said nothing - at first. anobserver2 Jul 2023 #9

Read the link I posted about the Privacy Act and death anobserver2 Jul 2023 #10

What I am trying to say to Yale is this: You are wrong - because.... anobserver2 Jul 2023 #11

Yale does not have a transcript for GHW Bush is my belief now anobserver2 Jul 2023 #12

You have to remember: GHW Bush was married with a kid anobserver2 Jul 2023 #13

BTW I am very much against legacy admissions anobserver2 Jul 2023 #14

Will re-format later anobserver2 Jul 2023 #15

Long-story short. It's not what you know, it's who you know. czarjak Jul 2023 #16

True anobserver2 Jul 2023 #19

Short version of my argument here anobserver2 Jul 2023 #20

Now do Musk orthoclad Jul 2023 #22