Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!cs.fau.edu!theo From: theo.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Theo Heavey) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: EFF Chapters Keywords: EFF college academia chapters Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 22:12:44 GMT References: <1991Mar26.164325.2631@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: bbs@cs.fau.edu (Waffle BBS) Organization: Florida Atlantic University Lines: 29 samuel@shemp.cs.wisc.edu (Samuel Bates) writes: > In article <7846@hsv3.UUCP> mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: > >Yes, but there are people interested in promoting the aims of EFF who > >aren't interested in promoting the entire spectrum of trendy causes > >which the Politically Correct define as "Social Responsibility." > >The electronic frontier might be better served by a separate group. > > Before tarring an entire organization with the brush of Political Correctness > you should try to find out if Computer Professionals for Social Responsibilit > does in fact promote "trendy causes." Furthermore, there are twenty differen > CPSR chapters, and they have widely differing interests. I'm not saying that > you shouldn't start a separate group, but kindly do not sling mud at a group > who is, after all, working with the EFF on a number of civil liberties issues > > --Samuel Bates > Chair, CPSR-Madison Sam, Being from an educational organization's student chapter (ACM) I would like to get more information about CSPR to pass along to our chapter (and others as well). Please send the relevant address(es) etc. and then we can ALL get educated about what CSPR does and does not do. theo heavey chair, acm florida Atlantic university theo@cs.fau.edu