Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!nntp-read!ben From: ben@bucsf.bu.edu (Benjamin Cline) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: harassing mail Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 12:31:55 GMT References: <1991May22.042638.18885@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991May22.123607.3430@athena.cs.uga.edu> <283BB48D.13A3@tct.com> Sender: news@bu.edu Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 26 In-reply-to: chip@tct.com's message of 23 May 91 12:24:44 GMT In article <283BB48D.13A3@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: According to rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II): >>But, without the students the school wouldn't be able to get the grants >>needed to fund labs like the IPL. > This line of reasoning is specious. There is a practical infinity of > things without which a university could not function: faculty, staff, > buildings, phones, books, ... > To single out students as essential and therefore give them what > amounts to _carte_blanche_ with university property is unjustified. I would like to see you start University without students then. At times it seems that is what the administration here would like to do. As ridiculous as it may seem many of us undergrads want an education too. benjamin -- Benjamin Cline ------------------------------ *ben@bucsf.bu.edu 235 Harvard Ave. |Practice: Theory that does | benji@gnu.ai.mit.edu Apt. #1 | function properly. | *prefered Allston, Ma 02134 ------------------------------