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Back in Blackout
Students who loathed a Pennsylvania university's weeklong campus ban of social networking sites last year won't be happy today. But the university hopes they'll learn something.
Opinion
The Challenge of Technology
The residential liberal arts college remains vital, but the model needs to consider how recent advances may transform education, writes Barry Mills.
Abuse of Trust?
U. of Michigan Library admits to flaws in process for identifying copyright "orphans" in HathiTrust Digital Library, in setback for project aimed at increasing access to digitized texts.
Wards of the Court
A sharp split over digitized versions of "orphan works," as well as anger over Google's books project, led authors' group to sue major university libraries.
Who Sets E-Mail Rules?
U. of Illinois says it is trying to protect privacy and intellectual property, but two national groups see unreasonable limits on free speech.
'XXX' Marks the Spot
The exercise of figuring out one’s “porn star name” is probably more familiar to college students than to college administrators...
What Students Don't Know
A two-year anthropological study of student research habits shows that students are in dire need of help from librarians, but are loath to ask for it.
Making Clouds Less Ominous
Research universities try to negotiate a standard contract with commercial e-mail providers that would ease costs and fears about moving sensitive data into the cloud.