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FIRE advocated on behalf of Wilson College students who faced university charges of slander, identity theft, and harassment for posting parody materials of a campus administrator on a Myspace.com profile. Five students who were listed as "Myspace friends" with the fabricated profile of the campus administrator denied creating the profile, but were still charged and brought before a series of Joint Honor Council hearings, where they were found "responsible" for Honor Code violations, and were later notified that charges were "pending" while at a second hearing they received after an initial appeal. Administrators also sought a waiver from the five students permitting Myspace to divulge the creator of the account, a request the students refused to honor. ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø wrote President Lorna Duphiney Edmundson noting the baseless nature of the charges filed against the five students. Wilson College counsel told ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø that the incident was still under investigation.