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From: pjs269@tijc02.UUCP (Paul Schmidt        )
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Re: USENET site admin responsibilities
Message-ID: <649@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 13:27:31 GMT
References: <13316@nsc.nsc.com> <3988@buengc.BU.EDU> <1989Sep3.043558.9447@xenitec.uucp> <4030@buengc.BU.EDU> <89250.001226HERSCHEL@AUVM> <2053@munnari.oz.au>
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> 	Oneday, kiddo, you're going to have to learn the reality that
> _you_ only have the right to say what you want so long as you only
> use _your_ resources to do so. If "your resources" are actually loaned to 
> you by some-one else then guess what ? They are always on loan under _some_
> conditions. If you can't hack the notion of working in partnership with,
> or being dependent on, anothers good/bad nature thats your problem.
> Understand that the 'news' service exists as a goodwill or parasite service
> at most Universities. You demand unfettered right to rock the boat? 
> Will you have the guts to accept responsibility when the boat sinks? Hmm?
> 
As far as Universities go, this is NOT true.  The University newspaper, although
it is owned by the University, has no rights to censor any articles, as current
legal interpretations of the law exist in the U.S.  (This is not the case for
High Schools, when a well written article was denied to be printed in the H.S.
paper, the school was found to have the right because of property laws.)

Of course, this notion teaches responsibility to the student.  Denying final
editorial power over the paper will teach what responsibilities he has in the
real world.  Will you have the guts to accept responsibility for those who
never learned it until AFTER they graduate from college and the boat sinks? Hmm?
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