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Not all cops know this law.

The camera man wasn't in the cops face. He wasn't in the face of the emergency personel. This wouldn't have made it to youtube or the cover of our school's paper if the cop didn't act like he did.

The police chief came out later and said the cameraman was in the right. But that doesn't prevent the cop from acting like an asshole the entire time. The cameraman was physically shaking from being intimidated.

Article title: Steam valve causes campus power outage

Publication Date: 01/31/07

http://www.purdueexponent.org/?module=article&stor y_id=3910

there were better pictures in the Exponent (Purdue's Paper for those of you not on campus ;-)

http://www.purdueexponent.org/index.php/module/Iss ue/action/Article/article_id/2676
http://www.purdueexponent.org/

there were better pictures in the Exponent (Purdue's Paper for those of you not on campus ;-)

http://www.purdueexponent.org/index.php/module/Iss ue/action/Article/article_id/2676
http://www.purdueexponent.org/

Purdue had one. I believe a girl did sue, actually. Although, I have to give her some credit; the brakes were faulty and she got hit by a bus. link

Okay, okay. So SHE hit the bus. Semantics I tell ya. The program was killed due to widespread vandalism.

Portland, Oregon had (and could perhaps still has) one; the Yellow Bike program. Google says they still have it: link

The site was, of course, /.'ed so I couldn't see, but if he has an Athlon in that rig and uses it to heat the coffee, his cups better have a warning printed on them! :-)

~Philly

[ed. note: I was going to post this earlier, but I had to go...]

And take the time to write up some webpages about the situation and post them on purdueonline.com. Inform the school newspaper and local papers that Purdue is trying to hijack your domain name. Publicity is never a bad thing when you're in the right.

As a Purdue student myself, I know the apathetic atmosphere around here coming from the students. For example, only about 10% of the students voted in the last student elections, which are online (you don't have to even leave your room). For the record, I did vote...

Also, the administration isn't always too receptive about students' complaints. There used to be an independent convience store right on campus. Over the summer, despite students' objections, Purdue bulldozed it to put in a parking lot (for admins, I think). Purdue was in their legal right to do so -- they owned the land and the store leased it from them. Purdue simply chose not to renew the lease. It still wasn't a very nice thing to do.

Now Purdue wants to knock down more independent shops in order to expand their business school.
I don't know if Purdue owns that land or if it has to buy it.

I don't know if there's a nefarious motive behind these two events (probably not), but it doesn't help Purdue's image with the student population (imo). My theory is that Purdue can do unpopular things, because in about 4 years, all the students who knew any different are gone. It's hard to complain about the TRIPLING of washer/dryer prices in the dorms, if you didn't know any different (like myself).

</rant>
(Sorry about the ranting... I got a little carried away)

What does all this mean for PurdueOnline? I don't know. But I do know that most of the student body probably won't care enough (not me -- I care!) to do anything. Of course, I'd love to be pleasntly surprised.
That said, I would like to suggest that the owner of PurdueOnline get his message out and hope that there are enough supporters. Call/email the Exponent (the school newspaper, which, ironically, is at www.purdueexponent.org) Maybe you can get enough support to make the Purdue lawyers go away. I hope your service doesn't go away!

(posting anonymously so as not to incure the wrath of any administrators who might actually read /.)