When recounting the glory days of youth, many will be hard-pressed to neglect nights of euphoric intoxication and excursions through the streets of a college town unlikely to judge their character, however questionable their character may be in retrospect.

No one understands this better than Pipe Dream ‘ in the unspeakable hours of production night that often bleed into the next morning, we’re students too.

So it is with this delicate rift in our personality ‘ a grotesque cross between student and professional ‘ that we feel we must put our professionalism to practice and create (at least in the short term) a set of boundaries and guidelines concerning our publication on the World Wide Web.

We live in a new world, something George Orwell himself might not have envisioned himself, where millions of people will watch a video of your cat on a toilet and your name can be found within seconds of low-impact Web searching.

The implications of unwelcome Internet recognition are both familiar and familiarly crippling. Stories of students losing out on job offers because employers have cruised Facebook and scholarships being revoked because unsavory pictures surfaced in an online search are dotting the canvas of the college experience.

Even so, the implications of compromising both content and journalistic integrity are no less dangerous. To purport ourselves as a professional outfit and simultaneously modify the stories we turn out in order to protect students, in truth, from themselves, would service no one.

The milky ether of the Web contains any number of references to the indiscretions of youth and our own Web site has certainly been no exception. Perched on the edge of a media revolution, we have decided that our own site, bupipedream.com, is subject to the same standards as our, or any, print edition. As of the publication of this editorial, we have decided as an editorial board that any amendments made to our archives must meet a set of criteria.

Entries from Weekend Warriors, which often chronicles the inebriated adventures of the State Street crowd ‘ and has not been published online since 2006 ‘ will continue to be excised from our Web site.

Further amendments to the site itself will only be considered and judged by the editorial board when concerned with alcohol, drugs or sex. As these issues arise, Pipe Dream will evaluate the claim and may alter a name ‘ but not a quote ‘ in a way they see fit.

The standardization of policy and information distribution in the increasingly digitized newsroom is not only essential to the legitimacy of a news source, but also for the welfare of all who are served by it.