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FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms
amigoro writes with a link to the Press Escape blog, which is discussing new guidelines suggest by the FBI for university administrations. The Federal Bureau, worried about the possibility of international espionage via our centers of learning, now sees the need to restrict the freedoms of university students for national security. "FBI is offering to brief faculty, students and staff on what it calls 'espionage indicators' aimed at identifying foreign agents. Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel, showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials, attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know, and unexplained absences are all considered potential espionage indicators."
Perhaps you missed the word 'unusual.' If it is something that everyone in academia does, it wouldn't be unusual, now would it?
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
This is like lowering the speed limit to try and stop drag racing.
I know what you mean. It's not like people will stop drag racing. They'll just be doing it slower.
God spoke to me.
Thinking back to my University years:
"Unexplained affluence"
I splurged on the xtra large pizza with all the toppings.
The university cops asked where I got the money and I told them to mind their own business.
failing to report overseas travel
U.S. Customs already knows, and it's none of the University cop's damn business.
showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope
I'm looking for a promotion, what can I say?
keeping unusual work hours
I have classes during the daytime, I have to work nights and weekends.
unreported contacts with foreign nationals
The South Korean chick was cute. Wait, she was the only chick in the Engineering department. No, I'm not going to tell you what we were doing at the flagpole at 3AM but no it didn't involve whipped cream.
unreported contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials
Remember that trip abroad? It was to South Korea. That chick's dad is a Sergeant in their Army.
attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know
Um, I didn't NEED to know the combination to the Dean's office safe, but how else was I going to get the dead rat in there?
and unexplained absences are all considered potential espionage indicators.
I wasn't about to rat out my new frat brothers for hazing me too hard. I can still taste the puke but it was worth it since Brother Able got me that first interview 4 years later.
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Cheers,
Simon
Since when is working a night job ("keeping unusual work hours") a suspicious activity?
This is university we're talking about. Surely FAILING to pull all-nighters would be the suspicious activity.
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Objectivity clearly has an anti-Bush agenda...
Fixed.
That depends on when you perform rounding and what the values were prior to rounding. 1+1 does in fact eqaul 3, for sufficiently large values of 1.
Your objectivity clearly has an anti-Bush agenda...
It's related to reality's well known liberal bias.
When I was teaching I told my students that they were only allowed one Grandparent per quarter. I had one quarter where someone had both of their gradparents "die". I saw the student at a bar when they were supposed to be in Dallas.
Don't forget kids : a bombing is a TERROR act and we are at war against TERROR right ? Everytime a bomb explodes somewhere, this is these Al-Quaida rascals who organized everything ! Trust us, we know their modus operandi, that's how we arrested so many of them. Don't forget also to report any student curious about things outside his field and who enjoy to get out of USA, that's very suspicious.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.