[341] in Resnet-Forum
Double Dipping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Arthur)
Wed Sep 14 10:07:04 1994
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 08:42:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Matt Arthur <arthur@wugate.wustl.edu>
To: Resnet <resnet-forum@MIT.EDU>
Here at Washington University, we have just about to start full ethernet
connections to student rooms. This is supplamenting the 24Hr Computer
Clusters that they already have access to in each of their residence
halls. I have a question that was posed to me by a student and thought
I would query this group about your own experiences.
This year, inroom connections have been paid for. There is a discussion
about charging students either for the connection to their rooms
individually or having a "fee" attached to their housing bills to pay for
all of Residential Computing. That is not the question, though. Once
connections to their rooms becomes complete, they will pay for it one way
or another. Modem connections is the subject de jour.
All of the schools here at the University provide some sort of modem
access for their students. By definition, this means that all students
are "paying" for this service. (The schools provide these connections
at no direct charge to the students that use it.) Now, if resident
students are asked to pay anything for access to main campus, they are -
in effect - paying for access to the same things, twice. Why should
they? Should the schools stop providing modem access and require
students that want to use the modems to get to the campus network pay for
"accounts"? I can see the student newspaper now.
Thoughts? Solutions? Experiences at your institutions?
See you all at Educom, I hope.
Matt Arthur - arthur@wugate.wustl.edu
Washington University
Manager - Residential Computing
(314) 935-6845, FAX (314) 935-4001
