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- From: schuyler@acf9.nyu.edu (Gabriel M. Schuyler)
- Subject: Open Access Computing NOW
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:33:15 GMT
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- From my reading of the past few months of CAFnews, it has come to my
- attention that we are all fighting our own separate battles with the
- adminstration of academic computing facilities. I recently transfered from
- UC Santa Cruz to New York University and was appalled to see that NYU does
- not have a policy of giving a full UNIX account to the students.
-
- You can get a VAX Shell that lets you use mail and telnet, but FTP is out
- of the question. It requires a faculty sponsor to get an account, and
- since I am not currently enrolled in a CS class, I had to ask the dean of
- the college to sign the form that would allow me a UNIX account.
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- Basically, I believe that access to the internet is an information resource
- like any other (e.g. the library) and that the University should allow
- access to the internet to all students without question.
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- So, what I'd like to see is a UNIFIED front on getting complete access to
- the Internet for all students. I propose an organization of students,
- faculty, sysadmins &c with a document describing an "Open Access Computing
- Policy" that we could get signed by people across the country.
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- This way, we can have a piece of paper with endorsements from the leaders
- of the industry that we can give to the computing department and the board
- of directors of our colleges and propose that they adopt it, so that all
- students can have access to the Internet.
-
- I only read the caf-news, so please reply in a manner that will reach me.
- I am willing to put a lot of work into this. If you've got ideas, or would
- like to see an Open Access Computing Policy at your university, please send
- me e-mail.
-
- It's about time someone ensured Open Access for all students at all
- Universities. All aboard. . . ?
-
- -Gabe
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- Gabriel M. Schuyler - 55 second ave #3 - Macintosh Consultant
- schuyler@acf9.nyu.edu - New York, ny 10003 - Pager: 917.879.0345
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