Facebook isn’t just for ridiculous photos of politicians’ kids anymore. Now university presidents are getting into the act.

We’d usually say that a college administrator having a profile on Facebook, the big social networking site that started with colleges but has since spread everywhere, sounds pretty neat — the administration is trying to be transparent and stay in touch with the students’ internet fads. We can imagine a lot of good uses for the site by administrators: posting bulletins about school events, discussing complaints, and so on. Some schools (like GW) even use the site to try to bust parties.

However, Janet Dudley-Eshbach, president of public Salisbury University on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, is in hot water over her use of the site. Some vacation photos Dudley-Eshbach posted to her profile included her swinging a stick at a man hugging her daughter with the caption that she had to “beat off the Mexicans because they were constantly flirting with my daughter” and another one has a photo of a tapir with the caption “Animal with world’s largest (genitalia).” Maybe it’s time to look into those privacy settings, Ms. President.

Delmarva TV station WBOC broke the story (there’s also a video on their website), and they interviewed some less than thrilled Salisbury students, who are probably already tired of getting steak jokes.

The stick-swinging photo looks pretty staged to us, and the tapir photo is kinda funny in an Adam Sandler sort of way, but both are probably a tad unprofessional. Dudley-Eshbach has since taken down her profile. She issued a statement expressing regret and blaming the privacy settings. Oops! After a quick search, it appears that no local university presidents have profiles on the site, so we were unable to dig up further incriminating stuff.

But chin up, Washington-area Salisbury students and alums, at least your school didn’t make a terrible promotional video.