For those who don't click through, the article's title is supremely misleading. There are only anecdotes about corrections departments and college athletics. But hoooooly crap this little gem:
Social media monitoring on colleges, while spreading quickly among athletic departments, seems to be limited to athletes at the moment. There's nothing stopping schools from applying the same policies to other students, however.
Look, college athletics has a lot of issues. Colleges secure all economic benefits associated with player performance in exchange for a college scholarship (I hope O'Bannon v. NCAA solves that problem soon). [0]
But how can anyone extrapolate requirements from college athletes to the entire student body? Would any Ivy School dream of asking an applicant for their password, when said applicant's mother might be a partner at a law firm? What about the constitutional issues regarding the same request from a public university (funded by taxpayer money)?
Social media monitoring on colleges, while spreading quickly among athletic departments, seems to be limited to athletes at the moment. There's nothing stopping schools from applying the same policies to other students, however.
Look, college athletics has a lot of issues. Colleges secure all economic benefits associated with player performance in exchange for a college scholarship (I hope O'Bannon v. NCAA solves that problem soon). [0]
But how can anyone extrapolate requirements from college athletes to the entire student body? Would any Ivy School dream of asking an applicant for their password, when said applicant's mother might be a partner at a law firm? What about the constitutional issues regarding the same request from a public university (funded by taxpayer money)?
[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-sham...