On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:03:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/08/07 21:55, Amy Templeton wrote: > [snip] > > It's a private college, and have no desire to make this anywhere > > near that insane, but thank you nonetheless. I'm basically > > wishfully hoping for a quiet solution. > > If it's liberal, and it probably is, you could claim Discrimination. > All the more so since you're female.
I was thinking along the same lines. It *is* discrimination, in a way in that you've made a choice about how to operate you're computer and they are preventing you from fully participating in your educational experience because of a failure to use open accessible formats. You could also claim hardship: why should you be forced to spend money for a product that is *NOT* required to complete your education, other than the fact that they are trying to make you use it. Books, general supplies, fine, but forcing one word processor over another is ridiculous. Also, what is your comp-sci department like? Are they not a good source for at least moral support? or are they stuck using VB and javascript coding from a gooey IDE... A
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