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03-21-2007, 12:00 PM
Internet Curfew for College Students? (http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/103356693/article.pl):
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.'"http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=8AgksS</img> (http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=8AgksS)
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/103356693
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.'"http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=8AgksS</img> (http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=8AgksS)
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