🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <283BB48D.13A3@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II):
>>But, without the students the school wouldn't be able to get the grants
>>needed to fund labs like the IPL.
>
>This line of reasoning is specious.  There is a practical infinity of
>things without which a university could not function: faculty, staff,
>buildings, phones, books, ...
>
>To single out students as essential and therefore give them what
>amounts to _carte_blanche_ with university property is unjustified.

Don't forget desks, chairs, and overhead projectors.

I don't think the students get free run of the computer facilities, but
they should be taken into consideration.  Several people here are scoffing
at them because they don't pay anything for the computer labs, the funding
comes from external sources.

My point was simply that there would be no external funding if the school
wasn't there and the students are largely responsible for the school if by
sheer numbers alone.  I'm saying this (not officially or anything) from the
point of view of a staff member.  I'm not a student here that's whining that
no one lets me use the fancy computers.

-- 
Rodney