Moronic Means of Managing IT

I'm sorry, but when you're administering the serving of a database for students to access in a group project, it is absolutely ass-backwards to only allow them to access it from a wired connection, on campus. Every other resource in the department is available through the appropriate use of usernames and passwords, including an svn repo that I have been using without any problems, whatsoever. But for some reason, databases should not be accessible from the web, and should be restricted to specific IP addresses.

Are you kidding me? Is it really so hard to expect even just some amount of parallelism between policies? To have completely different philosophies on what is accessible from off campus and what is not, baffles me.