"They are also involved and engaged with their mobile phones very strongly, " added Takahashi, noting that 96 percent of high school students own a cell phone in Japan.

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These kids deliver endorsements in school cafeterias, at sleepovers, by cell phone and by e-mail.

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The ACLU is demanding that the school adopt a policy that prohibits administrators from searching cell phone text messages.

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But, police say, there was no activity on Kopetsky's cell phone after she walked out of school, indicating that the battery went dead or was removed from the phone.

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Since this elaborate electronic hoax is an embarrassment to the university at a level, will athletic departments create red flag words and phrases that alert the school of illicit conversations and then monitor player electronic communications like cell phone and computer data?

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