Keep in mind that these people probably went to this residential with the promise of a good internet connection. If it's in the lease agreement, they have a right to it, same as a right to hot and cold running water or to a certain number of meals a day, or electricity, if those happen to be in the lease too.
In Australia people choose their residential on the basis of what it offers: good food, good internet connection, co-ed, special study/tutor offers, or whatever their personal priority is (often religion is a big priority). And if they don't get what they want, they are likely to leave the next year and tell everyone it's not worth paying to live there. Plenty of residentials, colleges and shared houses encircle the University, there is plenty of competition to get the richest and most worthwhile students into your college for the year. And a lack of a good connection will look bad, and make your college far less popular.
Never having been to America, I have no idea what the case is over there of course. But it seems likely the word would get around, and the college would loose big money in the long run.
Personally I think a form for internet using students to sign saying the College holds no responsibility would be enough. We had to do something similar in my first residential. Now they don't seem to bother...
I meet so many people who don't realise how easy it is for their friends (and enemies) to get information of this sort from the net. Why do they think they're posting it if they don't want it available to the general public? This is a healthy wakeup call for the ignorant.
Ah yes. But I don't see why he got so famous: every single Pally I've quested with occasionally becomes a "Pally-Kaze", to the disgust (and delight) of the rest of the party. He didn't do anything unusual.
Just harness the marvelous power of the vacuum between everyone's ears. You don't even have to leave the atmosphere then....Yes, including that emptiness in my own head, thankyou...
Sadly, yes, doing something for it's own sake rather than for monetary gain is frowned apon, and sometimes viewed with fear and confusion, not that I'm saying this review goes THAT far (if you don't believe me, try smiling at someone while in a subway one of these days: the person will generally check that you haven't got someone stealing their wallet while they are distracted. Or busk without a hat out: no one realises that an orchestral musician might just enjoy playing music in the sun in winter, and they search madly for a way to throw a coin into my closed music case).
Perhaps he sees the money as a complication rather than a useful item: instead of assuming he could donate it, there would be all the trouble of getting the money into his country, bank balances, taxes, and more questions and papers to fill out to get it donated, and all the rest of it. All of which is time he could have been spending on solving another interesting question, or gathering mushrooms, or whatever.
Coming into a fortune is not always fortunate.
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Keep in mind that these people probably went to this residential with the promise of a good internet connection. If it's in the lease agreement, they have a right to it, same as a right to hot and cold running water or to a certain number of meals a day, or electricity, if those happen to be in the lease too.
In Australia people choose their residential on the basis of what it offers: good food, good internet connection, co-ed, special study/tutor offers, or whatever their personal priority is (often religion is a big priority). And if they don't get what they want, they are likely to leave the next year and tell everyone it's not worth paying to live there. Plenty of residentials, colleges and shared houses encircle the University, there is plenty of competition to get the richest and most worthwhile students into your college for the year. And a lack of a good connection will look bad, and make your college far less popular.
Never having been to America, I have no idea what the case is over there of course. But it seems likely the word would get around, and the college would loose big money in the long run.
Personally I think a form for internet using students to sign saying the College holds no responsibility would be enough. We had to do something similar in my first residential. Now they don't seem to bother...
I meet so many people who don't realise how easy it is for their friends (and enemies) to get information of this sort from the net. Why do they think they're posting it if they don't want it available to the general public? This is a healthy wakeup call for the ignorant.
Ah yes. But I don't see why he got so famous: every single Pally I've quested with occasionally becomes a "Pally-Kaze", to the disgust (and delight) of the rest of the party. He didn't do anything unusual.
Just harness the marvelous power of the vacuum between everyone's ears. You don't even have to leave the atmosphere then. ...Yes, including that emptiness in my own head, thankyou...
Sadly, yes, doing something for it's own sake rather than for monetary gain is frowned apon, and sometimes viewed with fear and confusion, not that I'm saying this review goes THAT far (if you don't believe me, try smiling at someone while in a subway one of these days: the person will generally check that you haven't got someone stealing their wallet while they are distracted. Or busk without a hat out: no one realises that an orchestral musician might just enjoy playing music in the sun in winter, and they search madly for a way to throw a coin into my closed music case). Perhaps he sees the money as a complication rather than a useful item: instead of assuming he could donate it, there would be all the trouble of getting the money into his country, bank balances, taxes, and more questions and papers to fill out to get it donated, and all the rest of it. All of which is time he could have been spending on solving another interesting question, or gathering mushrooms, or whatever. Coming into a fortune is not always fortunate.