I'm sure it's at least partially due to the church's stance of strict neutrality. Even if the protest benefitted the university in some strange way, they would forbid the protestors to associate themselves with BYU. It makes sense, too. The universtity strives for as much diversity as it can muster from a 99% homogeneous student base. It can't afford to appear to risk offending anyone by taking a stance on any political issues that aren't a simple choice of good vs. evil. Even in those cases, it's the church that issues statements, not BYU.
Simply put, the university has the power to say, "You use our facilities, our bandwith, and our name. We don't want any of those mixed up in politics, business, etc." The restrictions they impose are absolutely appropriate and further the mission of the university. ========== Next Item of Business =========== OK, so from the Forbes story[1] that /. linked to, are we to understand that the SCO folks originally bought the rights to UNIX, made the source available to the world (but not the rights to the UNIX source), and sat on its haunches for a few years, all with the intent that some UNIX code would make its way into Linux so they could sue everyone? -Brent [1] http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:30, Matt W. wrote: > From: "Evan McNabb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > concerned about us doing it. He does not want BYU's name attached to this > in > > anyway. I understand why he feels that way and he was a VERY nice person. > When > > we're at the activity we should try not to mention BYU. We'll just mention > SCO > > a lot. :-) > > Not that I'm complaining, but it would be nice to know, why would it be so > bad to have the BYU UUG associated with a protest? I understand that some > people may not like it; they are the same that feel any > protest/demonstration is no good. But seriously, what implications does > this have? Is it because we are a BYU sponsored club and as such the > opinion of the club *is* official BYU opinion? > > Seeking reasoning, > Matt W. > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
