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From: jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article
Message-ID: <wcGuFni00j5u05PsV5@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 14:32:19 GMT
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	<1991Jun1.164136.4553@herald.usask.ca>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) writes:
> The UNIVERSITY bought the equipment.  The UNIVERSITY owns the equipment.  The 
> UNIVERSITY gets to say how the equipment is to be used, who can use it, and 
> what rules these users have to follow.

  A more refined model:

  The computer equipment is under the direct control of the systems
admins/programmers/operators.  The a/p/o's are under the direct
control of a supervisor ... who is under the direct control of the
vice-president for ... who is under the direct control of the
president of the University who is under the direct control of the
Board of Trustees.  So, directly (though through a chain of command)
the BoT for the University is in control of the system.  However, the
Federal/State/City Governments are in INDIRECT control, in as much as
they can change the level of funding which the University recieves
from them to pay for computer systems.

     Two important points:

     1) Indirect control is a lot less powerful (in some cases) than
direct control. (Stuart Reges' case aside).

     2) If you REALLY want to get some action out of the university,
it's less likely to succeed through some sort of OUTSIDE intervention.
It's much more likely to be effective if you take it to the school
newspaper and then through the university.


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