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

Post by Clubber » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

tiahura wrote: post #425

nothrabannosir wrote: post #265

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> I am not planning to get a lawyer involved as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end. An officious word for lawyer is counsel , because that’s what they’re for: they offer legal counsel. You don’t technically “talk” to a lawyer , instead you ask them questions. They answer. That’s why client-attorney privilege exists at all: so you can feel free to seek counsel, ie ask questions , without fea…

As a lawyer, your post is almost entirely incorrect. Privilege in no way depends on whether the communication involves questions. It cracks me up. As a lawyer, I would never post on HN to argue about pointer arithmetic or inference optimization, yet the law seems to be fair game for amateur hour.

Post by 93po » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 4:45 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #460

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or you know, offer more of the desirably classes, or charge extra for them, or give people "fun bucks" to register for classes and the more desirable ones cost more fun bucks

High-demand classes are bi-modal. The left side of the distribution is the low-level intro and survey courses. I went to a very heavily pre-med undergrad with a total enrollment of about 1,500 where the intro Chemistry course had two 100-150-person survey courses with multiple TAs. Charging more for these is pretty stupid. The answer is to offer more of them if you have the physical space, the professor(s), and the T…

Post by morgango » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

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…

Post by pshirshov » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC

donalhunt wrote: post #353

loeg wrote: post #92

UW registration weren't really open to criticism or improvement ca. 2009, either. Extremely hostile to student projects that would in any way interact with the registration system.

Having been on the IT side of student registration, it's a major undertaking for the teams involved with thousands of students to be processed in a fairly short window. Downtime of any type during the registration period has a major impact so I'm not surprised that a university is being cautious with a 3rd party system connecting and potentially causing performance or downtime issues.

Post by xkcd-sucks » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

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I'm a university professor, and this is batshit crazy. Who ? As in not "they" or "the university", but who within the university? Can you tell where the directive is coming from? If this comes from, say, the Provost's Office then this probably can't be handled internally. (The position of Provost is the #2 position at a university, and the provost usually runs the show while the President or Chancellor goes schmoozin…

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