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From: richard@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Richard Congdon)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Punisher
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.182756.11183@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 18:27:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.192722.339@eff.org>, kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
|> Resolved: The punishment that a computer administrator can impose on a
|> student should be not exceed that which an instructor can impose.
|> 
|> This policy is wise; it is a check against overly harsh punishment. (A
|> suspension from the classroom, computer, or campus is serious because
|> it may prevent a student from completing a required homework or
|> test.)
|> 

Hear, hear! For many disciplines it no longer a priviledge (as it once was),
but a necessity to have access to computers; denying such access is tantamount
to kicking a student out of school.  That a sysadmin anywhere can get away with
seriously/fatally impede one's studies is appalling. IMHO, the sysadmin (or
their boss that knows, and lets them get away with such behavior) should be
seriously repremanded.
-- 
		Richard Congdon
		Brandeis University Computer Science
		617/736-2717