Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!gargoyle.uchicago.edu!faustus From: faustus@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Kurt Ackermann) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: EFF Chapters Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 18:56:51 GMT References: <1991Mar18.214218.29444@vpnet.chi.il.us> <18668@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar19.211732.14152@vpnet.chi.il.us> <1991Mar19.213148.14254@vpnet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: na Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 55 In comp.org.eff.talk you write: >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. Something else you might consider is the general activism of college students. EFF News could be distributed and talked about, perhaps excerpted in college papers as timely or interesting issues came up that concerned a broad enough base of students. Also, as recently mentioned in another thread in c.o.e.t, the local chapters could organize trips to certain court cases (recently very popular in the Chicago area I might add :-) for a show of support and interest. Students might also send mailings to congress-folk, make phone calls, etc. Young, idealistic, and motivated individuals are a good base to build. >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. These are good ideas, too. >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? I'm certainly interested. Let's see how this strikes others. >Louis Giliberto >(louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us) Kurt Ackermann | Grey, dear friend, are all | | of your theories; the golden | | tree of life is green! | -Mephistopheles