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From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Subject: OSU--not just computing policies
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.203322.6339@eff.org>
Date: 7 Jun 91 20:33:22 GMT
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Sender: cgh@frame.com (Grant Hogarth)
Message-Id: <9106071728.AA03206@tillicum.frame.com>
Subject: OSU--not just computing policies
Status: RO

	With all due respect to the two people from OSU who spoke
about their policies and the implementation and enforcement thereof, I
feel compelled to add my $0.02.

	As a former (Graduate) student of OSU, I must say that I found
the administration there generally uncaring of any student's rights
and/or priviledges *except* where they conflicted with or assisted
that faculty/administrator's own political (internecine) agenda.  If
they conflicted, the student was squashed or ignored, if they
assisted, they were glorified *for as long as it was politically
expedient to do so*.  The departmental student ombud was powerless,
and the University ombud (as far as I could see) served only as an
apologist for the University.  Thus, I was not at all surprised to
read the accounts of the absolutist, elitist attitude of the computer
administration.

	Apologies for sounding so splenetic, but I believe that
corporate attitude devolves from the head down, and that like a fish,
the head seems to rot first.

\Grant Hogarth (MA '89)
-- 
Carl Kadie -- kadie@eff.org or kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- But I speak for myself.