First let me say that OSU is not that bad. In fact OSU was named 'most wired' University at one point in time. OSU had network before most other State Universities. And they are building new 'on campus' apartments that will have full network access.
That being said, I think OSU has taken this way too far. They could have, and should have, taken care of this issue 'in house'.
Every OSU Instructor I've talked to about this just laughs and thinks its ridiculous. I have to wonder who actually made the decision to bring the police in on this. Can you say DUMB?
Anyway, if you have not figured it out, I am a student at OSU. Not only that I am the one that supplied the 300' cable to the students in Stout. They were friends and they needed cable; I had a spool collecting dust and gave it to them. I didn't see anything wrong with what they wanted if for (and still don't).
They made their own cable and plugged it into an outlet that was available for their use. What's wrong with that?
This is just -stupid- on the part of OSU. This does not mean that OSU sucks or is not a good University. All Universities make mistakes, this one just happened to get our attention because we could see ourselves doing the same thing.
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First let me say that OSU is not that bad. In fact OSU was named 'most wired' University at one point in time. OSU had network before most other State Universities. And they are building new 'on campus' apartments that will have full network access.
That being said, I think OSU has taken this way too far. They could have, and should have, taken care of this issue 'in house'.
Every OSU Instructor I've talked to about this just laughs and thinks its ridiculous. I have to wonder who actually made the decision to bring the police in on this. Can you say DUMB?
Anyway, if you have not figured it out, I am a student at OSU. Not only that I am the one that supplied the 300' cable to the students in Stout. They were friends and they needed cable; I had a spool collecting dust and gave it to them. I didn't see anything wrong with what they wanted if for (and still don't).
They made their own cable and plugged it into an outlet that was available for their use. What's wrong with that?
This is just -stupid- on the part of OSU. This does not mean that OSU sucks or is not a good University. All Universities make mistakes, this one just happened to get our attention because we could see ourselves doing the same thing.
Just my thoughts.