UPDATE: EAST LANSING - Some students are graduating as published authors. Joe Grimm's advanced undergraduate journalism class did just that. This past semester they researched and wrote a book entitled, "The New Bullying: How Social Media, Social Exclusion, Laws and Suicide Have Changed our Definition of Bullying."
"A Lot of older people, especially don't know how much bullying has changed. It's a different thing now than it used to be so we wanted to investigate how bullying has changed, " says Professor Grimm.

One way bullying has changed is through cyberbullying, or bullying that happens over the internet. The book discusses how relentless cyberbullying can be. There is no escape from it; not even in your own home. But that is not the only thing that has changed. As Joe Grimm points out, " We've toughened up things quite a bit so that using computers to bully or to bully someone as all is becoming much more dangerous for the bully from a legal point of view."

Michigan is the 48th state to have a law about bullying. In fact it was this law that gave Joe Grimm the idea to have his students write about bullying in the first place. The students were excited to be writing about something that is so current, however, it was not all smooth sailing.

"At one point," Joe Grimm explains, "I got cold feet and didn't think we could publish a book and I told the students that I thought we should end the book part of the project . They told me they thought they could do a book so they voted and said they wanted to publish a book- and they did!"

The book is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.


ORIGINAL STORY: EAST LANSING - Summer is in the air and students are grauduating but some students are graduating with more than just diplomas.