Lawmaker in PowerPorn Presentation to Students

by Jordan Yerman | October 6, 2007 at 10:44 am

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And, no, I'm not going to add a "visual aid" to this!

Ohio state legislator Matthew Barrett was supposed to give a group of high school seniors a civics presentation using PowerPoint slides he had prepared on how a bill becomes a law. What they got was an anatomy lesson when the computer he was using displayed the image of a topless woman.

The busty photo appeared shortly after Barrett inserted a memory stick into a school computer. He said there were several snickers from the 20 or so students in the senior government class at Norwalk High School.

The democratic lawmaker quickly removed the data stick and apologized. He told the Norwalk Reflector it was the first time he had done the presentation using PowerPoint and said he received the stick as a gift from an aide about three weeks earlier. Ohio State Police have taken custody of the device and computer to discover exactly where the image came from.

So which was it, the flash drive was a gift, or the the image was added by one of Barrett's kids?

Was the image actually part of the presentation, or did he just open the wrong document? Or none of the above? Aside from the obvious, my problem with this is that Barrett was too unmotivated to even open PowerPoint before giving a presentation. C'mon.

Lessons we can all take home:
1. Know what's on your machine;
1a: If it's pr0n, then hide it;
2. Don't open anyting in front of an audience if you've never opened it before;
3. If you expose students to porn, it will end up on the Internet.

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