HAHA, motivated from the no laptops in lawschool class thread

[Corporate Thug]

so students petitioned the fact the a professor would not allow lappies in class

My school recently started to limit bandwidth until they got the new fiber optics lines installed (this as been delayed til mid april)

so what do the students do? PETITION of course

http://www.petitiononline.com/uch2006/petition.html

by mid week the badwidth should be restored

 

[mundane]

I'd be careful about signing arbitrary petitions. When I was in college, some of the SE students wanted the labs to extend hours over breaks, etc. So one student goes and creates a petition, gets tons of students to sign it (SE or not), and then files it with the absolute top of the department. Needless to say, the people who's heads he went over were pissed, and the SE students were severely reprimanded (I was CS, and really didn't care). Not that the petition itself was a bad idea, but that the person who's responsibility it was made some poor choices on how to proceed. If you sign, you carry some liability on how it's handled.

 

[Corporate Thug]

if ANYONE gets in trouble, believe me, we will advocate to the utmost until that person is relieved of such trouble. we arent doing anything illegal here and therefore should not be held responsible for any "trouble"

 

[mundane]

I'm only suggesting to take care on who you give authority to present the petition. If mismanaged, it reflects poorly on the people who signed it - whether the original request was reasonable or not. In academia, profs are very jealous of the power they do have, and in the given instance were thoroughly displeased with students going over their heads. In the corporate/professional environment, I'd imagine the situation could become even uglier.

Just be sure someone competent presents it, and there shouldn't be any problem.

 

[Saint Nick]

you guys are signing a petition for BANDWIDTH? ...

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: jndietz
you guys are signing a petition for BANDWIDTH? ...

yes, the limitation has become so bad that we cant even download powerpoints or other docs.

 

[Corporate Thug]

UPDATE: we ALREADY won

After numerous concerns about the decision to limit wireless bandwidth in the 198 McAllister building, we have decided to restore the settings as they have been all semester. I apologize for any inconvenience that students experienced.

We are rebooting the wireless gateway server and the increased wireless bandwidth in 198 should take effect within the next 20 to 30 minutes.

 

[notfred]

What were you limited to?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: notfred
What were you limited to?

they just limitied bandwidth, no particular site restrictions but the speeds were sub-56k

 

[mugs]

You're all a bunch of whiny bitches.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: mugs
You're all a bunch of whiny bitches.

whiny b**** that get what we want

but seriously, its kinda ridiculous that you cant even download a powerpoint...