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I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by ra »

tokinonagare wrote: post #232
eykanal wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just piling on here because upvotes are not visible. The one thing you can guarantee is that your good faith is not reciprocated by the university. Get a lawyer. To make it easier: it sounds like you're still registered. University of Washington offers Student Legal Services ( https://depts.washington.edu/slsuw/ ). Set up a referral with one of them and talk to them. Even if they're employees of the university and do…

Upvoting too. > Unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for. They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate. Wow. Literally blackmailing a student to do illegal work (at least would be categorized like…

Relying on good faith won't help you at all.

Someone at the uni has taken this personally, and has attacked you. At this point, if you don't defend yourself - that person has won.

Please seek legal advice.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by luxuryballs »

thfuran wrote: post #144
jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

>I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end. What about their actions so far suggests that?

Yeah maybe OP really is grifting us all

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by glaugh »

move-on-by wrote: post #163
eykanal wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just piling on here because upvotes are not visible. The one thing you can guarantee is that your good faith is not reciprocated by the university. Get a lawyer. To make it easier: it sounds like you're still registered. University of Washington offers Student Legal Services ( https://depts.washington.edu/slsuw/ ). Set up a referral with one of them and talk to them. Even if they're employees of the university and do…

It’s a funny thought, but looks like a nonstarter: > SLS cannot represent a student when the opposing party is another UW-Seattle, Tacoma, or Bothell student or UW entity.

I know very little about lawyering, but I could imagine a UW-alum or Seattle-area lawyer advising pro bono bc of generosity or good publicity on a very newsworthy case

Anyone on here friends with a UW-alum or Seattle-area lawyer who might be interested but doesn’t read HN?

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by turbojet1321 »

sf_rob wrote: post #223
turbojet1321 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd never considered that a sports program could be revenue producing. That's quite interesting. Although it seems weird that higher education and (almost-professional) sports are so tightly coupled.

An interesting outsider perspective is this clip of Steven Fry going to an Auburn game: https://youtu.be/FuPeGPwGKe8 Regarding the latter, it’s weird and certainly was exploitative when college athletes weren’t allowed to monetize through sponsorships and frankly still is exploitative.

I was more thinking that there's not a particularly natural overlap between sports and academic ability. You'd think that by tying the two together, you'd get both worse sporting and academic performance than if they were unrelated.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by joe5150 »

fsckboy wrote: post #164
jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

are JD Kaim and Ed Kaim related?

Yes: https://x.com/EdKaim/status/1877146069093466344

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by singron »

OtomotO wrote: post #169
ericmcer wrote: post #62

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Are those numbers a sum of the total benefits or something? It seems insane that a campus security guard is making 170k.

It seems insane that you need campus security guards at all oO

A lot of campuses have actual police. In some ways campuses are similar to a municipality and have many of the services that entails (fire, trash, water, power, snow removal, parks, and security/law enforcement).

You could similarly ask why a town of 50,000 people needs a police department.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by low_tech_punk »

UW's slogan is "Be Boundless". This is the polar opposite of that.

UW has missed a great opportunity to show its current and future students and faculty that innovation is valued there. Their management decision will shutdown the minds of so many brilliant hackers, as we have already witnessed with the OP's decision to back down. I really hope the school can re-evaluate their decision and more importantly, the faculty should support the students, as they are together pursuing the goal of learning by doing. That's what higher education should offer, not conditioning people into rule makers and rule followers.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by RIMR »

ta988 wrote: post #160
jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

Be extremely careful about what you say online or to friends from now on. They may use anything against you. Do not give any extra details about the project, do not comment on how it was made and what it used etc.

Might be too late for that: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by abrookewood »

NBJack wrote: post #9
jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

You may want to consult with a lawyer. This is starting to sound like extortion.

It is absolutely extortion. What a bunch of arseholes. I can't believe they even suggested that.
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