Gould Hall Public Terminals Made Off-limits

The public terminals on the main floor of Gould Hall on the U Dub campus that were once available to the public, and on which the majority of my unfinished book, Discontents at Rome: 63 B.C. http://indybay.org/uploads/2007/04/15/discontents.1march07.pdf, was written has been closed to public access, though it was open to the public before, the UW police told me yesterday. Now the terminals are available to "U of W students, faculty, and staff." This comes at a rather odd time, since school just got out and there is no waiting for them at this time. There are no other terminals open to public use on the U of W campus which have MS-Word, a necessary program for the composition of any serious document. There terminals there are now plastered with signs stating these new rules.

I think this is really backdoor privitization of public property and underscore its profondly negative impact on freedom of speech and scholarship. I hope that Real Change will take the time to look into this problem.