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Feds Propose National Database of College Students

Posted by michael on from the getting-drafty-in-here dept.

Dore writes "The Department of Education wants to collect personally identifiable information on all college students, including name, address, birth date, gender, race, and SSN. Privacy is assured. The No Child Left Behind Act, which holds primary and secondary schools accountable prompted this line of thinking. Now colleges should be held accountable. If you made it to college, you were not left behind, and further attempts at monitoring citizens should be."

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  1. Let me be the first by Neil+Blender · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    to pin this one squarely on GW.

  2. Well shit, if that's the case by BlackTriangle · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Then I'd never be able to graduate with my Commerce degree! Stupid Comp Sci degree... designed to destroy the soul :(

  3. National Database for Only Foreign Students by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The national database should be used for only tracking foreign students, especially those from China (which includes Taiwanese province and Hong Kong). The weight of the evidence suggests that the greatest terrorist threats and the worst anti-American activities (e.g. encourage ethnic groups to vote in favor of Taiwanese interests at the expense of American interests) occurs in the foreign student population.

    The database should be maintained by the Office of Homeland Security.

  4. Re:no professor left behind by randmairs · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So if I understand you correctly, your university has to have a prof who is the campus idiot. That parallels the Federal Government where out President is the Federal idiot. No President left behind.

  5. Re:Privacy is assured. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shayt yer hole, yew yew-ro-fag! Ya'll want meh tuh blast ya with muh six-shootah?