A Monster Database Is Not the Answer

If Big Brother has a dream, this is it.

Creeping its way slowly through Washington's corridors of power recently has been a proposal that would allow the federal government and colleges and universities to create a national database of personal information on American college students.

Included in this federal database -- known technically as a "unit record" system -- would be each student's name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, attendance record, and

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