"Nobody teaches assembly language"

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote: "Rescue in Castro Valley", where he took stuff from the school dumpster (against administrative orders) but then got overwhelmed with other problems, and left it to a fate that was only slightly better than the dumpster. "Wouldn't showing your class a picture be just as good as showing them the real computer?" "It looks unprofessional to have all that junk [a single 5150 on a table at the side of the room] lying around." [a stack of 4 5150s] "is a fire hazard" [3 IBM mono monitors] "are toxic waste" [locked cabinets] "are a safety hazard" [a stack of 3 boxes of printer paper] "is a fire hazard" We are now not allowed to have more than 2 reams of paper in the room. "Doesn't the lab look so much better now, without all that junk, and with all of the machines the same?" They wouldn't let me put numbers on the workstations (so that a student could be a little more clear than "I'm at the machine that is kinda near the clock.") "The lab will look better without numbers cluttering it up." It wasn't just computers. One of the administrators has taken a WHOLE DAY fire safety class, and has declared that "ANY door that has a window with chicken wire in the window is a FIRE DOOR, and must be kept closed at all times.", and had the door stops removed from every door. In spite of the fact that we are talking about WOODEN doors, and none of the rooms have enough ventilation without propping the door open. They hired an incompetent consultant to decide what computers to get. He had an AA degree with a C average. They refused to let any of the instructors, all of whom have BAs, and most MAs, have any input. No, but an apparent antipathy towards anybody who knows more than they do. We're a community college, but the answer is no.