{"id":1246,"date":"2007-03-17T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T10:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/17\/robert-putnam-to-the-white-cou\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T10:38:03","slug":"robert-putnam-to-the-white-cou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/17\/robert-putnam-to-the-white-cou\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Putnam to the White Courtesy Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/03\/15\/qt\"><cite>Inside Higher Ed<\/cite><\/a>, a story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSDEL28263020070313\">unique attempt to address student problems<\/a> at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of India&#8217;s top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its hostels, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students&#8217; performance, making them reclusive and even suicidal.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities at the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socializing and many were late for morning classes or slept through them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Accordingly, the Internet access will be completely cut off from 11pm-12:30 am every night, to encourage students to go to bed early, or at least get out of their rooms and talk to other students.<\/p>\n<p>That seems a little extreme, but I can sort of understand the impulse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Inside Higher Ed, a story about a unique attempt to address student problems at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai: One of India&#8217;s top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its hostels, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students&#8217; performance, making them reclusive and even suicidal. Authorities at the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/17\/robert-putnam-to-the-white-cou\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Putnam to the White Courtesy Phone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}