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We have no intention to "tarnish" any trademark (specifically those belonging to St. John's University). Thus we do our best to eliminate any associations with negative things (ie: drugs, prurient sexual activity, racism, and even foul language) All posts on the message board, visitor submitted lists, articles and any other portion of the website including external links to other websites, are the sole opinion of the person who has posted or submitted their input. stjohnssucks.tripod.com does not support all opinions expressed and makes no claim to support of any opinion expressed on this website. stjohnssucks.tripod.com generally extends the freedom to express opinions by our web visitors.

We do our best to censor offense language or "off color" remarks, message board posts, and literature. If there is something offensive please point it out to us immediately.

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Regarding Participation on message board and other visitor submission portions of website-
Terms of Use:
Participitation on this website forbids infringement upon any copyright or trademark. Participants are also held legally liable for defamatory comments, in accordance with the law. (Please read below to help a general understanding of limitations to comments) We are prepared to remove infringing materials within a reasonable allowance of time upon proper notification to the above email address. stjohnssucks.tripod.com, its webmaster, and holder/s of the domain expressly disclaim any control over postings on the website, at the same time we reserve the right to remove any offensive posting.

Submissions to the "Professors Who Suck", "Courses That Suck", and other similar segments appear "as is", we do not edit the content of those portions, the only editting done is in the censorship of foul language (curse words). If you find any of those postings to be offensive or defamatory towards yourself or anyone else, please contact us immediately. We take these postings as opinions, we make no claim to the validity of the statements, those who post them are held strictly liable for comments made.

Revised Policy (as of January 31, 2001) Re: Message Board
Those who can not adhere to these standards will have all posts (offending as well as any others) removed. We reserve the right, and have the ability to block any person from participating on the message board.

If need be: we reserve the right, with warning, to report a repeat violating I.P. address to St. John's University Administration. If it is found that the I.P. belongs to an on campus, or a St. John's University dialup account the offender may be held liable for misuse of their internet service, as outlined in St. John's Universityguidelines. There are strict codes of conduct for use of internet accounts via St. John's University; beacause our code of conduct coincidentally is similair to that of the university we recommend you research the rights of your internet account if you plan to continue violating our code.

Please note: stjohnssucks.tripod.com and its message board are in no way affiliated or associated with St. John's University, its internet service provider, or internet accounts.

Advice for those posting to message board:
(The following advice is not legal advice, it does not grant you any form of protection, and we take no liability over the advice. It is strictly a general guideline to consider before posting a message or submitting an opinion):

If you're going to publish something yourself, you've got to make sure it's true. Opinions, however, are another matter. If you don't say something that is verifiable as true or false -- (ie: "that that guy has his head up his butt") -- it's not defamatory because nobody can prove whether it's true or false. It's an opinion. An opinion is welcome, but we cannot accept accusations.