On Thu, Nov 07, 2002, Eli Billauer wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Haifux Linux-Day 2003 - Impressions and summerize": > There is only one solution, and it's called Another Place. Haifa University looks >like an excellent alternative > (the Perl Mongers are starting to take over some room there). > > Assuming that the situation is Israel won't get any better until the next party, no >cars will be let in for a > "Linux Day". You can't publish in advance that people can get into the technion with >a metallic box without having > it examined, and expect that the security will let them in. > > You can't get into the Technion with a car on Friday eves at 22:00, with nothing at >all today. I'm talking about > regular dancing evenings at the Technion, in conjunction with Agudat HaStudentim. So >does anyone expect people to > come in with cars in the middle of the day, for a single event, not officially >connected with the Technion?
Right. Please do not pin the Technion's longstanding anti-car policy on security. It has NOTHING to do with security, and it existed well before the recent terror spree. Thousands of cars already have entry permit to the Technion, so stealing one to get into the technion, or simply running down the silly unarmed guards (scarecrows?) in the entrance is a trivial task for a terrorist. So, the Technion's car entrance policy is not about security. It *used* to be about parking space which is in shortage in the Technion (again, this is the Technion's *policy* not to build parking towers; I guess that donors don't like parking towers named after them...). But this is no longer the case either - it has become a plain example of fascism. Here fascism is not about killing people (obviously :)) - what I mean is that the technion's entrance guard "administration" has become an end, rather than a means to an end; The technion's population (faculty, researchers, students, etc.) have become subservient to the wishes of the guard "administration", rather than the other way around. Just a few horror stories I personally witnessed in the last year: 1. A certain professor invited a visitor to talk to him, and faxed the gate instructions to let the visitor in (these faxes are the "proper" way to let people in). When the visitor tried to get in, the gate claimed they never got the fax. The professor called them to straighten things out, but they insisted that the professor personally come to the gate to let the visitor in. 2. A Ph.D. student living in the Technion's dorms ordered furniture for the dorm. The gate refused to let the truck in, citing the driver's "disrespect" as the reason (the driver was pissed off when he couldn't just drive in, and he was a little hot-headed). So this insistance on "respect" rather than service the student meant that this student (a good friend of mine) had to carry (!!) the furniture about half a kilometer from the entrance to his dorm. 3. I was going to a costume party in the Technion. This was around midnight, and the people inviting me already notified the gate about my car number. But this wasn't enough: the man at the gate insisted that I park outside the gate (for people unfamiliar with the technion - this means a large u-turn and walk on foot), go talk to the guard in the booth, and then enter. I tried to plea them, that I am dressed as a cow (no kidding :)), and walking in the street like that in the middle of the night is the last thing I want to do right now, but they couldn't be swayed. It took me as much as 10 minutes to enter the Technion that time. And don't forget the story that got to all the papers: a member of Knesset that was denied entrance, before the president of the Technion himself had to come to the gate to let him in. > Given how well-hidden the registration opportunity is on the site, and the fact that >there is no reason stated why > someone should registrate, 12 people is a lot. If the registration meant that you >had your timeslot promised, I > think that many more would do that. Right. -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Nov 7 2002, 2 Kislev 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Sign in pool: "Welcome to our OOL. Notice http://nadav.harel.org.il |there is no P, please keep it that way." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
