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Internet Curfew for College Students?
140Mandak262Jamuna writes "IIT Bombay, one of the top Indian engineering schools, is restricting internet access to its students. The restriction is simply to cut off all internet access at night from the dorms. The school claims the 24/7/365 internet access is hampering academic performance, personality development and extra curricular activities. Though these are the 'official' reasons, it appears there are other reasons too. Mr Prakash Gopalan, the Dean of Student Affairs, says, 'one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.'"
I guess it's back to beatin' off to the "dead tree" edition of <enter title of favorite skin-mag here>. At least the monitor was easier to wipe off.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
$21,300 is not chump change, but unless $21,300 x the number of students at your school = the total operating cost of your school, then your lifestyle is being subsidized by someone else. They should get what they pay for, which is as highly educated a populace as is possible. You talk as if you are not getting what you rightfully paid for, yet you never ask the question, let alone answer it: is your community getting what they paid for when some slacker is skipping all her classes, downloading lesbian porn, and feminist propaganda movies over bittorrent?