My Fellow PowerBook-philes,
In Georgia we'd revolt against such concepts. There would be lawsuits
and legislation overturning such "requirements."
Firstly, unless it is itemized as part of the overall required tuition
we'd have activists, both liberal and conservative, having a field day
with the "hidden and discriminatory costs of attending."
Secondly, since it is a public instituion, this institution is to be
held to higher standards of equality, fairness and liberty. There would
be howls from, once again, both liberals and conservatives about the
inability of students to "choose" and the violations of liberty forced
upon these students and their families.
The only way this would fly is if these computers were not only itemized
as, specifically, a part of the actual tuittion (the required tuition to
attend) AND they were subsidized.
I think the citizenry of Minnesota might need to begin letting their
feelings be known on the matter.
I'm disapointed in Minnesota. The home of the best Public Radio
programs yet they ignore some basic and fundamental freedoms of the
right to make your own decisions.
Still, I imagine they likely had high-speed internet for all students
before the University of Georgia was able to do so. (I think we got it
in ... 2000?) At least we have an extensive wireless cloud.
Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon
"Liberty over all!"
themacuser wrote:
Mabye we should get the addresses of these institutions, and if each
one of us sent them an email complaining, their email server would be
completely flooded into the ground.
On 12/06/2005, at 3:07 PM, Brian wrote:
Winona State University (a public university here in Minnesota) has
a program that bans use of any non-winona owned laptop on their
campus. In other words, public schools are not immune to this
behavior.
Brian
On Jun 12, 2005, at 12:29 AM, Pacer wrote:
My Fellow PowerBook-philes,
Dude! Where does your daughter go to school??? Holy cow. Is this
college or high school? America? Europe? Somewhere else?
I hope it is a private school -- we'd be all over a public school
doing this in my state. They'd have so many lawsuits from so many
corners before they even thought of it ... well...
And as for the fascism of Universities ... have not really
experienced that myself. My State's flagship University is not too
shabby on that front. Not so hot at some others, though. Like
having a falling out with its Alumni fund-raising foundation....
Oops.
Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon
P.S. My father is a Professor at one of the larger public Us and
he does quite a bit more than research. Your cousin is lucky.
Wait till he gets picked to be head of a department or some other
admin+teaching+research-or-you-lose-your-tenure position. Ah the
state of Academia! :-)
Tom Ethen wrote:
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