Both DHCP servers will probably answer requests for ip addresses. The client computer will get an ip address from whichever one answers faster. If you get a packet sniffer on the network, you should be able to see both DHCP servers responding to requests.
Computers on a college campus are different than computers in business. A company owns its computers and therefore has full discretion over them. On a college campus, the students bought and payed for their own personal machines. They have a right to download and install whatever they want onto them. And I agree that they are going to be pretty upset if the internet connection they are paying for is turned off.
However, in my experience working at a college, the college was able to say that it owned the network and that allowing students to connect to that network was a priviledge, not a right that it offered to its students. If the student's computer was harmful to the network, they were disconnected from the network for the greater good of the students at the college. They could be reconnected when they could prove their computer was clean.
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Both DHCP servers will probably answer requests for ip addresses. The client computer will get an ip address from whichever one answers faster. If you get a packet sniffer on the network, you should be able to see both DHCP servers responding to requests.
Computers on a college campus are different than computers in business. A company owns its computers and therefore has full discretion over them. On a college campus, the students bought and payed for their own personal machines. They have a right to download and install whatever they want onto them. And I agree that they are going to be pretty upset if the internet connection they are paying for is turned off. However, in my experience working at a college, the college was able to say that it owned the network and that allowing students to connect to that network was a priviledge, not a right that it offered to its students. If the student's computer was harmful to the network, they were disconnected from the network for the greater good of the students at the college. They could be reconnected when they could prove their computer was clean.