Scout.com > Oregon State POLL: Public or private on college players? Story URL: http://oregonstate.scout.com/2/876444.html the staff of BF.C BeaverFootball.com Jul 3, 2009 A RECENT NEWSPAPER study by the Columbus Dispatch says college athletic departments are taking advantage of a law to shield from the public information on student-athletes in the name of student privacy -- from injuries, to NCAA violations to criminal behavior and beyond. And so that leads us to ask you the question... What is, and what isn't, fair game? The article by the Columbus Dispatch lists Oregon State as one of the schools who "censor information in the name of student privacy, invoking a 35-year-old federal law whose author says it has been twisted and misused by the universities." But the article fails to provide an example on Oregon State, unlike several other schools mentioned in the story. You can read the Dispatch article here. And since the article's publication, the federal government has gotten involved. No one is arguing that grades are, and should be, private, says the article. But as for the rest of it all, there are widely varying opinions and practices. So the question is this: in college athletics regarding student-athletes, what information should be private and what information does the public have the right to know? Copyright © Scout.com and BeaverFootball.com