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http://www.elsewhere.org/journal [Communications From Elsewhere] Given how little anyone cared about a legitimately crazy person making death threats, I was surprised this morning to read the story of a University of Florida grad student being hassled by his university police for having written a short story from the point of view of a stalker and murderer. I’d contact the UFL University Relations office to see if they’ve got a prepared statement about this incident, but the only contact information I can find is a phone number, and it’s a little late to be calling Florida.

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storytelling: You post your stories on the internet. One of the stories you post is about somebody who murders two people and then joins the army. (via Cosmos)

The Woolamaloo Gazette The Woolamaloo Gazette: And before you think if you live in the UK this doesn't matter to you think about the Shirley McKie fingerprint fiasco and how even when totally clearned and indeed publically compensated no action has been taken over senior police and forensics people who were involved in that whole sorry mess (which the government also sat upon). And think on how Blair's Labour Party in England is attempting to bring in a national DNA database by the back door and his cronies in the Scottish executive would very much like to but have been forced to pare back their ideas because they only govern in tandem with the Liberal Democrats who told them no. (via Cosmos)

http://dmotion.wordpress.com  dmotion: So the University Police of the University of Florida asked a graduate student of English to provide fingerprints and DNA so that "they can compare the fictional murder he described in his story to evidence from any similar unsolved murders." Say what? (via Cosmos)

http://maudnewton.com/blog  Maud Newton: Blog: More than twelve years after Rolling pled guilty, that tradition is still going strong. The university police at Gainesville’s University of Florida have targeted a graduate student in the English program over his publication of a piece of horror fiction on his LiveJournal. (via Cosmos)

Haizeak: Fla's English program, and keeps a personal creative writing journal called "Pulp Decameron," where he posts very short stories in the styles of various pulp genres. The stories are released under a Creative Commons license. (via Cosmos)

http://blog.founddrama.net  found_drama: On May 12, detective Sanders of the University of Florida police left him a voicemail asking him to contact her. This began a series of meetings and calls with the University Police in which detectives repeatedly pressured him to allow them to fingerprint him, so that they could compare his prints to evidence from unsolved murders. (via Cosmos)

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Thingshttp://www.boingboing.net [Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things] U. Florida cops ask fiction writer for... : The university police at Gainesville's University of Florida have targeted a graduate student in the English program over his publication of a piece of horror fiction on his LiveJournal. The police have repeatedly visited the student and demanded that he submit his fingerprints and DNA to them so that they can compare the fictional murder he described in his story to evidence from any similar unsolved murders.

http://panhandling.blogspot.com  Panhandling: For science nerds: UF was part of the recent planet-finding via microlensing observations (is that a cool diagram or what?). If you read pop-science nonfiction, you know about microlensing. (via Cosmos)

EDSBS: re going to profile the best of them, too. We’re gleeful that the University of Florida, after years of making ads of exactly the type described above, finally shelled out some dough, subcontracted, andproduced an ad that not only is shot on film, but is actually kinda marketing savvy (via Cosmos)

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