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- From: bob@romeo.caltech.edu (Robert S. Logan)
- Subject: Re: Should Alums have access to school accounts?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.001510.5358@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:15:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.185210.17665@orlith.bates.edu>, pbeach@abacus.bates.edu (Preston Beach) writes...
- >
- >At out college, alumni have free access to every school facility but one.
- >They are currently not allowed to have accounts on our mainframe. I have
- >been proposing (for the sake of some alum friends) that that rule be changed
- >so that LOCAL area alums or alums who are staying in the area can have
- >temporary accounts. I consider this to be an ok plan considering that alums
- >have all the other facilities available. I would like to know what the
- >policies concerning this are for other colleges and universities. Please
- >post here or email me. Thanks in advance.
- >-Preston
- >
- >EMAIL : pbeach@abacus.bates.edu
- >Bates College
-
- At Caltech, our Alumni Association bought a SPARCstation and gives any member
- an account. It is in the same group of Suns and NeXTs that students use, so
- they feel right at home (recent grads anyway). This makes it nicer for us
- (we run that cluster) since when a graduating student wants to keep an account,
- we just say 'join the Alumni Association'. It is also a good incentive for
- recent grads to join the association. So everyone is happy.
-
- Bob Logan
- bob@cco.caltech.edu
-