Black pages

Sat Feb 10 12:58:34 EST 1996

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> > Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill") Serials/Reference/Systems Librarian

> > I have turned my hopepage black but do not feel I have the right to turn
> > our library pages that color.  
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> R. Wagers 

> You can't have it both ways.  By the way, 
> doesn't the library/college's web page reflect the opinions of the entire 
> campus community?  If you leave it alone or turn it black, are you sure 
> you're reflecting all their points of view.  Sorry there is no neutral 
> position in this, as much as you wish one!
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Mamet did a play called Oleana where the advertising said: No matter which
side you side with you are wrong. I think this is a similar situtation. 

Bill is right he doesn't have the _right_. 

Robert is right there is no neutral situation. Doing nothing is making a 
political statement in itself.

If Bill exercises that most extreme of politcal statements known to man 
and woman in 1996 in the USA 

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he does provide an opportunity for his college to deal with the situation 
in a public forum because there are a few people who will object to the 
use of <BODY BGCOLOR="#000000"> in public discourse. Could think of it as 
_educational_ moment. 

--Thom