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From: ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: unused gifts
Message-ID: <407@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 16:19:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: ndsuvax.407
Posted: Sun Aug 16 16:19:43 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 03:58:32 EDT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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      My original question concerning unused computer equipment donated to 
prestigious institutions while lesser schools get nothing has not yet been 
addressed.  It was:
        Why do companies doante equipment to prestigious schools which those
    schools either do not want or do not have planned uses for, when there are
    many deserving schools that would be delighted to develop plans and compete
for the gifts?   Advantages to the donating company of giving the equipment to 
less prestigious and equipment-rich schools include the assurance that it will
be used, if a plan had to be developed to get it, and the greater appreciation
students at that school will have since the donated equipment is likely to be
the only sophisticated equipment they use in school.