Virtual Sit-In
On March 4, as thousands of students and faculty across California took to the streets to protest budget cuts and tuition increases across the state’s university system, Ricardo Dominguez, an associate professor of visual arts at the San Diego campus, engineered a demonstration of a different kind. Dominguez arranged for hundreds of students to register for a "virtual sit-in," which involved logging on to the Office of the President portal on the system’s Web site… The stunt has landed the tenured professor in hot water with campus police and the San Diego administration. According to Micha Cardenas, a visual arts lecturer and Dominguez collaborator, the university is investigating Dominguez for orchestrating what is known as a "distributed denial-of-service attack," or DDoS.
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by Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed.