kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) (06/08/91)
[Forwarded from CAF-talk mailing list with the author's permission. Also, I fixed the line length. - Carl] Sender: cgh@frame.com (Grant Hogarth) Message-Id: <9106071728.AA03206@tillicum.frame.com> Subject: OSU--not just computing policies Status: RO With all due respect to the two people from OSU who spoke about their policies and the implementation and enforcement thereof, I feel compelled to add my $0.02. As a former (Graduate) student of OSU, I must say that I found the administration there generally uncaring of any student's rights and/or priviledges *except* where they conflicted with or assisted that faculty/administrator's own political (internecine) agenda. If they conflicted, the student was squashed or ignored, if they assisted, they were glorified *for as long as it was politically expedient to do so*. The departmental student ombud was powerless, and the University ombud (as far as I could see) served only as an apologist for the University. Thus, I was not at all surprised to read the accounts of the absolutist, elitist attitude of the computer administration. Apologies for sounding so splenetic, but I believe that corporate attitude devolves from the head down, and that like a fish, the head seems to rot first. \Grant Hogarth (MA '89) -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@eff.org or kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- But I speak for myself.