Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!sb1!ll1!otuxa!we13!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-ec:finn From: ecn-ec:finn@pur-ee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: FLAMES FACTORIAL Message-ID: <1037@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 18:24:07 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1037 Posted: Wed Aug 3 18:24:07 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Aug-83 08:32:11 EDT Lines: 28 Subject: FLAMES FACTORIAL "uw-june" is a site at the University of Washington. The most charitable assumption I can make is that this is a student who hasn't yet developed a sense of right and wrong. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!teklabs!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] --------------------------------------------------------------------- What am I (a "student" since kindergarten, making it the last 20 years of my life) supposed to make of this last line? Is this an implication that "students" form some kind of moral lower-class? Does Mr. Klossener view all academics as some kind of scum, or does he reserve his elevated scorn for graduate students? I guess I become God when I receive my Ph.D, is that correct? Or perhaps only those who have happily escaped from education entirely can develop working moral and ethical standards. Marc Majka ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally, I think that Andy was quite charitable. The only other reasonable assumption was that it was a Staff member who just didn't know better. I would much prefer to think that it was a student. He was not cutting on students in general, but the fact is that students tend to pay less attention to right or wrong as long as they can get away with it (as long as they are not yet in the real world). Don't make the mistake of taking his statement out of context! The Arch-Druid of H... (still a student, myself) David Hesselberth, Purdue University Computer Center {harpo, decvax, ucbvax} !pur-ee!finn (or) !pur-ee:pucc-h:adr