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Network ban in dorm creates student uproar (Ft. Worth Star Telegram)

It’s OK to make college students do more homework, write longer papers or even pay higher tuition.

But mess with their Internet access and you’ll get some high-tech turmoil.

Through the power of blogs, or online journals, news that officials at the University of Texas at Dallas were trying to restrict students from using personal wireless networks grew from a local dispute to a national online debate on student rights.