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In article <1f3lboINN19p@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> mathew@unixg.ubc.ca (Mathew B Englander) writes:
>In the Campus Times this week, UBC president David Strangway is
>quoted saying that when British Columbia's new Freedom of Information
>Act is proclaimed, the university will have to give a student's
>transcript out to anyone who asks for it.
>
>Surely this is not true. Freedom of Information legislation is supposed
>to allow citizens to see the inner workings of government, not files
>about other individuals. For example, the federal Freedom of Information
>Act will not allow me to see my neighbour's income tax return.

I think I was the source of that attribution, and I was wrong. After a more
careful look over the proposed legislation, the only thing that would be
required would be that a student must be able to access his or her own
transcript - which everyone can do already, of course.
 
My apologies.
 
      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
      Researcher, Alma Mater Society        thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
      Room 230B - 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
      Campus Mail Zone 1  phone (604) 822-6868  fax (604) 822-9019

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