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From: punia@uvm-cs.UUCP (David T. Punia)
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Subject: Who pays? (pc's at UVM)
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 10:00:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 10:00:57 1985
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	So why should the student pay?  One way or another, the student
is going to pay, whether it's for more mainframe power, public micros,
or personal micros.  In the first two cases, the money buys a resource
that the student has no guaranteed access to at any given time, and that
he loses access to when he leaves or transfers.  Also, in the first two
cases, typically, the students who don't necessarily use the resources
still wind up paying for it.  Why should music majors be paying for the
resources needed by the engineering students?  Many people out there are
talking about pricing potential students out of school.  This is, sad
to say, a fact of life.  Tuition increases have the same effect, but can
we freeze those increases?  Rather than flaming about genuine attempts to 
improve the process of educating these people, why not write your 
congressman about the impending deep cuts in aid to education.  The 
costs of education are not easily controlled without impairing the 
effectiveness of it.  

	It is a given that more computing power is necessary.  The 
Division of Engineering and Math, including the School of Business
Administration, has been the fastest growing area in the university
for several years.  The periodic increases in compute power have been
dwarfed by the demand.  These students are going to be using pc's for
the rest of their profesional lives, why not start now?  They won't
have to wait on line, sign up for machine time, and their own, personal
workstation will be available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.  The
scarce resources that are available on campus will be freed to do more
appropriate tasks than text editting, and will be much more available
for those who need the power.

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David T. Punia, Dept. of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering,
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