Anti-Terrorism Law and Higher Education

StudMuffin writes: "The American Council on Education website has a succinct summary of the new anti-terrorism legislation. The issues raised are those most likely to cause problems on our campuses around the United States. Specifically, the facts that schools must now turn over student records to investigators without informing the students, allows (get this!) monitoring of persons here on student visas, turnover of electronic communications and records, obtain IP addresses and routing and addressing data, records of URL's accessed, and most unfortunately ... install Carnivore at will to track internet use on campus. There are also specific regulations about university researchers and their ability to use biological agents in quantities not 'reasonably justified.' What about all of this doesn't suck? We give up a little freedom now, and later it's impossible to get it back." PDF only -- I wish they would put up a text version as well.

Comments

Not a bad idea

[Red Moose]

OK you might be getting pissed at all the Anti-Terrorist crap going around; I was watching a recent documentary about schooling in Pakistan and the outlook/opinions of the students on the Afghan war, and they were as usual doing the "America is the real global terrorist" thing as the interviewers were asking questions as they were taking exams, etc., .

He also asked them what exam were they taking and it turned out that around 80% of the particular school were all applying for US high-schools and colleges; when they mentioned this, the students were like "Oh yes we know we hate America", etc., "but all the good schools are there"....

The fact that student visas are openly available for just about anything, and that every dickless dot-com was throwing out H1Bs like there was no tomorrow (ironic that), I can't say it's a bad move. Green cards and citizenship take much longer - longer than freak terrorists have. $1000 gets you 2 week H1B processing, or whatever fast track visa processed that you want.

So really it's not a bad move; what may be the real problem is if they start to censor actual students, etc., and restrict free speech, etc., and confuse free opinion with subversive activity. That's called "China".