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From: mcglk@blake.acs.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen)
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Subject: Re: Procedure for rec.humor.funny debate
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Date: 9 Feb 89 03:27:15 GMT
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In article <8662@mailgw...> emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
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| Computerworld Feb 6 p 16 sez "Stanford scraps racist-labeled Unix joke
| service."  The anti-funny squad is Ralph Gorin, director of academic
| information resources at Stanford, and Cliff Johnson, manager of capacity
| planning at the Stanford Data Center.  The pro-funny squad is led by John
| McCarthy, professor of computer science, who is asking the U to restore the
| feed "in the tradition of academic freedom."
| [...]
|
| Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan Computing Center
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Ah, yes.  Ralph Gorin, famed author of a definitive SNOBOL text, and
the man who was slapped on the wrist for going through students' e-mail
some years ago.

You know, that doesn't surprise me a bit.  Last time I checked, "academic
freedom" wasn't even in his vocabulary.  Looks like Mr Gorin is overreacting
as usual.

				--Ken McGlothlen
				  mcglk@blake.acs.washington.edu