Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tellab5!vpnet!louisg From: louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: EFF Chapters Summary: Seeing the EFF address academia Keywords: EFF college academia chapters Message-ID: <1991Mar19.213148.14254@vpnet.chi.il.us> Date: 19 Mar 91 21:31:48 GMT References: <1991Mar18.214218.29444@vpnet.chi.il.us> <18668@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar19.211732.14152@vpnet.chi.il.us> Organization: Vpnet Public Access Lines: 33 One thing I would like to see, and I think it might work out well, is the creation of EFF chapters at colleges. ACM does this, and although their agenda is different, it seems to work quite well with respect to informing students and teachers about computers. If the EFF did this, they would be addressing some of the problems of the electronic frontier at the basic level -- the corporate employees, lawyers, programmers, etc. of the future. The chapters could sponsor lectures about Computer Use In Business and The Responsibilty Therein and so on. Basically, adress the same issues that come up here on comp.org.eff.talk but within an academic environment. It could help to heighten awareness about what goes on with hackers and networks and direct-mail-advertisement databases and so forth. It would also help people like me who are frustrated and don't know what to do to help actually get out there and do something instead of sit back and read comp.org.eff.news every couple of weeks. If the EFF were to do something like this, I would be glad to help here at Loyola in Chicago any way I could. I'm not too great at organizing or making an agenda, so they would have to spoon feed me an outline or something. Is anyone else interested in this? In the EFF or other students/teachers? Louis Giliberto (louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! "As above, so below; as below, so above" -- The Kybalion ! ! "I don't trust him; he has dark hair" -- My girlfriend's mother ! ! "So I'm stupid; what's your point?" -- Me !