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>From: nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev)
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Subject: Re: M. Zeleny
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In article mumble, kuhn@zariski.harvard.edu (Robert M. Kuhn) writes:

> This is a brief note to those who read on various newsgroups of the rescinding of
> Mikhail Zeleny's computer account in the Mathematics Department at Harvard
> University.  

> There seems to be a misapprehension that this action had something to do with Mr.
> Zeleny's activities on various newsgroups.  The action has been taken purely on the
> basis of Mr. Zeleny's use of departmental resources, coupled with his dropping of
> mathematics as major or minor.

This is a false statement. Mikhail Zeleny has not dropped mathematics
as his major or minor; nor does he intend to do so. Note also the
deliberately cryptic phrase: 'purely on the basis of Mr. Zeleny's
departmental resources, coupled with....' What might that mean?
  
>                           There are computer resources available to all
> undergraduates at Harvard, and these continue to be available to Mr. Zeleny.  The
> mathematics department, on the other hand, has separate computing resources,
> consisting of a small number of Sun workstations, for research purposes.  These
> are made available to members of the department including undergraduate mathematics
> majors doing research under the direction of a faculty member.  Mr. Zeleny no longer
> qualifies for such an account.

This is another false statement. All seniors at the Harvard 
maths department have such accounts.

> Thank you for your time and consideration,


> 	Robert M. Kuhn
> 	Director of Computing in Mathematics
> 	Department of Mathematics
> 	Harvard University
> 	1 Oxford Street
> 	Cambridge, MA 02138
> 	(617)-495-1610
> 	kuhn@math.harvard.edu

Philip Nikolayev at nikolay@husc.harvard.edu


