It's naive to think nobody will notice the stuff about us on the Internet. I also think it would take a pretty sick, paranoid mind to think THAT picture, with or without a caption, might foil one's aspirations of becoming a teacher.

I have lots of pictures of people drinking things. I have some photos of people drunk. I even have some embarrassing photos of a sober people. I wouldn't think any one of them are bad enough to keep a person from teaching.

From The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Although Ms. Snyder was of legal drinking age when the photo was taken, Millersville administrators deemed the image "unprofessional," and they refused to award her an education degree and the teaching certificate that came along with it. (Instead they issued her a degree in English.)

Now Ms. Snyder has filed a federal lawsuit asking Millersville to issue her education degree and teaching certificate. The former student also seeks $75,000 in compensatory damages from the university, according to the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pa. Millersville officials declined to comment, the newspaper said.

A picture of a person drinking at an adult party, even -gasp- alcohol, 'UNPROFESSIONAL'?! Anybody here even think a college student at a party should have to worry that a picture of them doing nothing more than drinking out of a cup would lose them their future career because it didn't look professional? She DID have a pirate hat on, but she wasn't dancing around naked with a lampshade on her head. I'd be willing to bet that pictures of the college administrators apparently drinking an unseen substance could be found. (Probably without pirate hats though.)

I also think she'll win the case, and I wouldn't rule out the possibility of another college issuing her the certificate out of an abhorence of close-minded unjust, control freakiness.

(You should see some of MY college pictures, and I STILL got a security clearance!)