This kind of arrangement, while it would raise the tuition, would also be easier from the support end because there would be fewer models floating around. It would be interesting to ask students what they would prefer. The opportunity to be threatened, humiliated and to live in fear of being beaten to death is the only 'special right' our culture bestows on homosexuals.
Computer companies do give names to their machines.
Maybe NIU could negotiate a bulk purchase froma major vender who would call the machine The John LaTourette Power Package and place such a label on each device. Or better yet, Gateway ships boxes with pictures of cows. A community will evolve only when the people control their means of communication.