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Despite support from students last spring to ban CollegeACB from Tulane’s network, university officials have not yet blocked access to the website.

CollegeACB is a website that enables student users to anonymously publish gossip. Undergraduate Student Government voted in March to recommend blocking access to the website on the university’s networks. The following month, students voted in a referendum in favor of blocking the website. Of the votes 568 supported the ban, 394 opposed and 598 abstained.

There are no immediate plans, however, to alter access to CollegeACB on-campus, chief technology officer Charlie McMahon said.

“Right now, we do not have any plans to block CollegeACB,” McMahon said. “We certainly remember the discussions that we and the student body had last year around this time, but at this point, we have not received any formal request to block the site.”

Aronson said, however, that in her experience the reaction of the student body has been positive. […]

“One thing to remember is that we need to evaluate what the most effective response other than blocking would be if the student body is still interested in the website,” McMahon said. “Honestly, blocking access on campus would be ineffective. Off-campus students and those with access to other web services could continue to post. We would need to look at other measures to get Tulane removed from the CollegeACB community altogether.”

McMahon said that in the case of CollegeACB’s predecessor, Juicy Campus, cooperation among universities in opposition to the website ultimately led to its demise. A similar coalition would be effective in opposing CollegeACB.

“When Juicy Campus was a problem for Tulane, universities across the country got together and cooperated on the issue,” McMahon said. “The result was a unified response that made it very tough for Juicy Campus to stay in business, and ultimately it succeeded.”

Read the full story at the Tulane Hullabaloo.

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