{"id":46991,"date":"2014-11-21T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_toning_down_the_tweets_just_in_case_colleges_pry\/"},"modified":"2014-11-21T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:00:01","slug":"nyt_toning_down_the_tweets_just_in_case_colleges_pry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46991","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Toning Down the Tweets Just in Case Colleges Pry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admissions officers at Morehouse College in Atlanta were shocked several years ago when a number of high school seniors submitted applications using email addresses containing provocative language.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the addresses made sexual innuendos while others invoked gangster rap songs or drug use, said Darryl D. Isom, Morehouse\u2019s director of admissions and recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>But last year, he and his staff noticed a striking reversal: Nearly every applicant to Morehouse, an all-male historically black college, used his real name, or some variation, as his email address.<\/p>\n<p>Morehouse admissions officials, who occasionally dip into applicants\u2019 public social media profiles looking for additional details about them, also found fewer provocative posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/20\/technology\/college-applicants-sanitize-online-profiles-as-college-pry.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admissions officers at Morehouse College in Atlanta were shocked several years ago when a number of high school seniors submitted applications using email addresses containing provocative language. Some of the addresses made sexual innuendos while others invoked gangster rap songs<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46991\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94,111,168,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}