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Why do Universities allow anyone to walk around the school?

Scepticalscribe said:
Nevertheless, it's good to see the topic raised and discussed, if only by everybody else who has contributed..........
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You lookin' at me? :p

Your points about universal availability did not go unnoticed.

Libraries come under that umbrella, but unfortunately not everyone is equipped, one way or another, to get to one.

But the Internet can replace that pile of bricks, mortar and dead trees, as it has done with so many other media sources.

I believe that countries that legislate at least a minimum free service are doing the right thing.
 
iJohnHenry said:
You lookin' at me? :p

Your points about universal availability did not go unnoticed.

Libraries come under that umbrella, but unfortunately not everyone is equipped, one way or another, to get to one.

But the Internet can replace that pile of bricks, mortar and dead trees, as it has done with so many other media sources.

I believe that countries that legislate at least a minimum free service are doing the right thing.
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No, no, not at all, mea culpa; my remarks were directed at the OP. Everybody else, repeat, everybody else who has written in this thread, seems to hold a view different to his (and thank the gods I don't believe in for that).

I take your point about the internet, but I'd see it as supplementing, rather than supplanting, more "traditional" piles of bricks and mortar, and pulped lumber.

Initially, I had thought to let the OP's original unfortunate post pass without comment, but, then, as I believe quite strongly that access to education is - or ought to be - a right rather than a privilege, I felt obliged to respond.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
No, no, not at all, mea culpa;
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OMG, you are so "easy".
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So as an Alumni on Alumni weekend not be able to walk on my old Campus when invited?

What a fascist statement to make saying Alumni can't visit their old school!

Plus these "old people" might be parents of kids, future student's parent checking out the school's facilities. Also my old Calc 4 night class on campus had a lot of middle executives from local businesses. So you are saying anyone over the age of 25 can't go to college?
 
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iJohnHenry said:
You lookin' at me? :p

Your points about universal availability did not go unnoticed.

Libraries come under that umbrella, but unfortunately not everyone is equipped, one way or another, to get to one.

But the Internet can replace that pile of bricks, mortar and dead trees, as it has done with so many other media sources.

I believe that countries that legislate at least a minimum free service are doing the right thing.
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The Internet can replace porn VHS shops, at best.
Believe it or not, I've seen a couple of homeless guys attend lessons and scrupolously take notes.
I'm pretty sure those guys don't have broadband.
Heck, *I* don't have broadband.

Now that I think of it, actually, I think all public libraries should provide Internet access for free.
 
villicodelirant said:
The Internet can replace porn VHS shops, at best.
Believe it or not, I've seen a couple of homeless guys attend lessons and scrupolously take notes.
I'm pretty sure those guys don't have broadband.
Heck, *I* don't have broadband.

Now that I think of it, actually, I think all public libraries should provide Internet access for free.
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I believe many, if not most, do provide computers and net access.

I live in a small, working class, non-wealthy, town and our library has about 20 computers. There is a 1/2 hour limit if anyone is waiting.
 
Shrink said:
I believe many, if not most, do provide computers and net access.

I live in a small, working class, non-wealthy, town and our library has about 20 computers. There is a 1/2 hour limit if anyone is waiting.
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My town has two computers from the early 1950s with Windows 98 (I'm not kidding you, I swear, I swear) and you have to pay 50c every half an hour to use them.

Oh, and no WiFi whatsoever.
 
villicodelirant said:
My town has two computers from the early 1950s with Windows 98 (I'm not kidding you, I swear, I swear) and you have to pay 50c every half an hour to use them.

Oh, and no WiFi whatsoever.
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That will teach you to live in Italy, instead of the clearly superior U.S. ;) :p




BTW - I had that great good fortune to visit Venice some years ago. What a city!! Stayed on the Lido, and the view of Venice rising out of the water as you approach the city in the launch is breathtaking. :)

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Scepticalscribe said:
Yes, most probably, when viewed from the rather dismal perspective of the OP's unfortunate if singular mindset. But, theories of alternative universes postulate that any number of infinities can occur, including infinite primates at infinite keyboards......;)

Nevertheless, it's good to see the topic raised and discussed, if only by everybody else who has contributed..........
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Hey, Scepticalscribe, don't let that mean old man, iJohnHenry, sucker you. He lives for that stuff ;) :p

God knows, he's done it to me often enough. I just step in up to my hips and he skewers me. Join the club :rolleyes: :)
 
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All 3 of the universities I have been to have been set within towns or cities, so major roads split them up and are scattered around a zone. To wall that off would be to wall off up to a 1/4 of a city centre (possibly, Manchester Uni+Met are just epic and sprawling).

And that would be silly.
 
Shrink said:
That will teach you to live in Italy, instead of the clearly superior U.S. ;) :p




BTW - I had that great good fortune to visit Venice some years ago. What a city!! Stayed on the Lido, and the view of Venice rising out of the water as you approach the city in the launch is breathtaking. :)

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Hey, Scepticalscribe, don't let that mean old man, iJohnHenry, sucker you. He lives for that stuff ;) :p

God knows, he's done it to me often enough. I just step in up to my hips and he skewers me. Join the club :rolleyes: :)
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Yes, Venice is amazing - as is most of Italy, in fact. Indeed, it is my very favourite country, and if the choice existed for me to live (and work) in a place I actually loved, that is where I'd move to.

Thanks for your sympathy & kind words, but if iJohnHenry suckered me, he suckered me. It doesn't bother me, and, unless a thread turns really ugly, I prefer not to get too involved.

We're actually on the same side on this issue - and quite clearly viewing the world rather differently to waloshin, so, at the end of the day, that's all that matters.

I don't mind being wound up and suckered - if that's how he plays it. By and large, this is an easy-going thread and a tolerant forum. Some of the other threads have allowed an ugly tone to creep in, and in an online environment, that can be profoundly nasty and unpleasant.

Cheers :D
 
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Shrink said:
That will teach you to live in Italy, instead of the clearly superior U.S. ;) :p
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I call BS.

We have the very same deal here. Just book your time with the Librarian.

They are well used too.

Shrink said:
BTW - I had that great good fortune to visit Venice some years ago. What a city!!
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Same here, within walking distance of St. Mark's Square and the Bridge of Sighs. :cool:

Shrink said:
Hey, Scepticalscribe, don't let that mean old man, iJohnHenry, sucker you. He lives for that stuff ;) :p

God knows, he's done it to me often enough. I just step in up to my hips and he skewers me. Join the club :rolleyes: :)
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"If God had not wanted you shorn, He would not have made you sheep." - paraphrased from The Magnificent Seven. :p
 
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treestar said:
Universities sell gym memberships to people in their community.
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The school I went to (MTSU) had the best gym I've ever seen. Climbing wall, Olympic sized swimming pool with 13 foot deep end for high diving and scuba classes, racket ball courts, 6 full sized indoor basketball courts, scads of gym equipment and classes. The place was amazing and I miss it all the time. They definitely sold memberships to the community. It was one of the most popular things to do in the middle of Tennessee.

treestar said:
Money money money.
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First thing that came to my mind. Hahaha.
 
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iJohnHenry said:
I call BS.

We have the very same deal here. Just book your time with the Librarian.

They are well used too.



Same here, within walking distance of St. Mark's Square and the Bridge of Sighs. :cool:



"If God had not wanted you shorn, He would not have made you sheep." - paraphrased from The Magnificent Seven. :p
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I'm removing the skewer even as we speak. Ouch! :rolleyes: :p
 
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