Be careful what you write

We have heard the case of the Independent Herald and Times taking away journalist's identities as they move their online archives.

However it can sometimes work the other way as this post over at the Chronicle of Higher Education tells that as

college papers have begun digitizing their back issues, their Web sites have become the latest front in the battle over online identities.

Why?

Youthful activities that once would have disappeared into the recesses of a campus library are now preserved on the public record, to be viewed with skeptical eyes by an adult world of colleagues and potential employers. Alumni now in that world are contacting newspapers with requests for redaction. For unlike Facebook profiles — that other notable source of young-adult embarrassment — the ability to remove or edit questionable content in these cases is out of the author's hands.