To discourage the wear potentially imposed by student experiments, the university plans to standardize the configurations to some degree, while still allowing the students to customize the computers somewhat. The company supplies its services free of charge to universities, with one rather significant catch. In exchange, Campus Pipeline gains access to the complete records of every student for resell to advertisers. CP has responded by pointing out the various ways it honors student privacy requests. Stay tuned on this one.
Some students say the best professors are the ones who bother to make Web pages for their courses.
A recently released report from the U.S. Copyright Office urges that public schools and universities be given exemptions and fair-use policies for their use of copyrighted intellectual property in digital distance learning projects. The flames are rising fast. Your own gentle intervention only made things worse. You're worried that a riot is about to start. This won't happen to you, but it's nice to know that you have a quick way to deal with it.if it ever did.