Censorship in the Dorm Rooms

The dorm experience so far at BYU has been quite simply fun and enjoyable for me. The guys on my floor get along, and for the most part everyone behaves. However, one thing in particular has left me in bewilderment since day one. The Internet restrictions. To tell the truth, ridiculous is the only word that can describe it. Anyone who's ever been on a computer knows that restrictive Internet access can thoroughly disrupt the researching part of any paper. As for the BYU dorms, it's extremely inconvenient to not be able to open certain web pages for whatever arbitrary reason the university can present.

From a parenting perspective, it's understandable for a concerned parent to feel the need to protect their child from possible dangers that can be exposed on the Internet. Nevertheless, that's not a University's responsibility to patrol the Internet, nor should it be. When kids take the step from high-school to college, they take a big step of independence and one of enlisting in the ranks of adulthood. Therefore, students at Brigham Young University should have the right to view whatever Internet page they desire, regardless of whether it's deemed inappropriate or not by the University.