http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/index.html

(Using your website, mind you)

I don’t see how UMSG is a covered entity seeing that it doesn’t provide health insurance.

And give me a break about the acronym.

“Student journalists are expected to meet commonly accepted journalistic standards of accuracy, fairness, honesty, impartiality and professionalism; to seek the truth; to weigh the quality of evidence; to identify bias in themselves; and to support conclusions or assertions with verifiable source material. Student staff members will be expected to identify, explain and accept responsibility for mistakes made, including the publication of clarifications and retractions.”

Futhermore, it seems that Mr. Shepherd has been selected to become the next editor-in-chief of the Maine Campus. As such, he will have almost complete authority over the paper, something that he fails to mention in his opinion piece. There seems to be a clear disconnect here. Mr. Shepherd wants full disclosure from members of one student funded organization (Student Government), but shies away from any disclosure on the part of another STUDENT FUNDED ORGANIZATION THE MAINE CAMPUS.

Let’s some up.
1) Mr. Shepherd is paid student money, collected through the mandatory communication fee, to report for the Maine Campus
2) Mr. Shepherd uses his own articles as sources for his editorials
3) Mr. Shepherd seems to oppose disclosure on the part of the Maine Campus A STUDENT FUNDED ORGANIZATION
4) Next year, Mr. Shepherd will be paid a substantial amount of student money to be editor-in-chief of the Maine Campus. Yet the students have NO say in his selection process. selection process, that involves being selected by the individuals hired by his predecessor.

As Mr. Shepherd writes “Secrecy and dishonesty, however, are unforgivable.”

Please, heed your own words.

There is nothing wrong with quoting online commentators and the author didn’t reveal any confidential information. Public information is just that, public. That is what a paper is supposed to do, reveal information. Are you getting it?

By the way, Mr. Shepherd writes an opinionated column. While op-eds should contain factual information and integrity, journalistic reporting they are not. As such, they are not subject to the same standards that a piece of journalism would be.

As Mr. Shepherd wrote,

[“During our meeting Tuesday, we went into an executive session to protect Nyssa’s privacy regarding this issue and we hoped Mario would have been more respectful of our wishes,” “Dayna” wrote.

Apparently, some student senators believe that Student Government’s mistakes should be swept under the rug. Don’t we deserve to know that one of our elected leaders was not paid in a timely manner? Moretto reported that Gatcombe was attempting to get medical withdrawal from a class — that is the most revealing he got. Her privacy was not violated.]

So what your saying is, you wanted to sit in on the meeting and get all the information about this issue even at the expense of invading her medical privacy and report it to the entire campus for everyone to know. Unfortunately for you that is not, nor should it be, any of your business so you had to resort to quoting an online comment which only further shows your ignorance.

And as a side note you mentioned “Moretto reported that Gatcombe was attempting to get medical withdrawal from a class — that is the most revealing he got. Her privacy was not violated.” Her privacy was not violated because you were denied sitting in on the meeting by the entire student government as you should have been. As far as I am concerned that makes the final score Student Government 1 Maine Campus 0… Good Game to you sir.