[lobbying-org] Re: CST Part II - May 1 Official Opening - Invitation

[Mike Cripps]

You complain about Bill Gates buying power - but doesn't the offer of a
(Nadia's) [why the brackets?] Sandwich Lunch sounds like bribery to you? I
am totally in favour of Mr G paying money for me to use a computer. As long
as I don't have to.

Mike

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-----Original Message-----
From: lobbying-org-admin@srcf.ucam.org
[mailto:lobbying-org-admin@srcf.ucam.org]On Behalf Of Mark Seaborn
Sent: 22 April 2002 17:53
To: lobbying-org@srcf.ucam.org
Subject: [lobbying-org] Re: CST Part II - May 1 Official Opening -
Invitation


"Lise Gough" <Lise.Gough@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> CST Part II - May 1 Official Opening - Invitation
>
> On May 1 the William Gates Building will be officially opened by
> Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes.  Paul Boeteng (Member of Parliament for
> Brent South), the Vice Chancellor and many other visitors will also
> be in attendance.
>
> A tour of the Intel Lab has been arranged for the visitors and the
> Computer Laboratory would like as many Part II students as possible
> to be seen working on their dissertation projects as possible during
> that afternoon.  A (Nadia's) sandwich lunch will be supplied to
> those who attend.

I don't know about everyone else on this list, but I'm disgusted that
they named the building after Bill Gates, a man whose contribution to
Computer Science has been negative.

I suggest that we protest about how the building has been named at the
official opening -- about how Gates has been able to buy the name, buy
influence, buy credibility (by association with the university) and
buy out academic integrity (whether consciously or not, those in the
Computer Lab will find it harder to criticise those who are paying
them), and protest that the students have had no say in the matter.

Who's interested in this?  Would anyone like to meet up to organise a
protest?

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         Mark Seaborn
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