Logan 5
Wondering what happens next..
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2 edits |  Everything will eventually kill you
So why not get the benefit the WiFi would give them while the students can...?
Drinking large amouts of Beer/Alcohol will also cause 'health concerns' but you don't see them banning drinking on campus or in the dorms/frathouses....do you.
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rileyjam514
There You Go Again...
join:2005-06-26
Kearny, NJ
| Hmmm...
And will they be taking some cookies with their Kool-Aid?
Seriously, if they're worried about radio signals causing sickness, wouldn't it be smarter to go after cell phones first?
Additionally, with the size and abilities of most routers, it becomes practically impossible to enforce a ban like this. It's going to turn into Prohibition at that school.
It's more likely that this person is posturing and preparing to step down as president, to hop into something else - lobbying, for example.
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N3OGH
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Philly burbs
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| Give me a break
What a crock.
Guess these kids had better move to the arctic circle, since that's just about the only place in the modern world you're not going find yourself near a WiFi router in the near future.
I can think of at least 10 things in the average college dorm room that leak out more radio energy that a WiFi Router.
A microwave oven and a cell phone are 2.. |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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Lowellville, OH
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| RF exposure.
You're going to ban Wi-Fi? What about cell phones, cordless phones, radio stations, TV stations, microwaves, satellite TV? give me a break. Go to your nearest radio station and stand next to their tower, then go home and sit next to you Linksys, tell me which one is truly giving off more radiation.
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Driscollw
join:2003-01-11
Virginia Beach, VA
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Re: Everything will eventually kill you
Excellent point. If people knew of all the "stuff" around your body they would freak. Cell Phones getting banned?NO, Smoking ? Maybe I'm not sure. Smoking is almost illegal. Put your nextel near speakers and/or monitors while your talking. See what happens. This is just BS. I thought people were smarter at colleges. LOL. Joking around. |
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gatorkram
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| Might as well kill yourself now
We all die from SOMETHING, and so many things in our modern lives are bad for us, or dangerous, but we take it all in stride, and keep doing these things, or using these devices, and in the end, like I said, we all die.
Look at cars for example. They sure kill a lot of people every year. Maybe we should get rid of them too?
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jeffster1970
Whatta Ya Think About Dat?
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| reply to N3OGH
Re: Give me a break
And I can think of some: Cordless phone, pager, remote car starter. And what about radio stations signals, tv stations signals and satellite signals? Lights also give off signals. Anything with electicity does. My God, where all going to die!!
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TKJunkMail
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Re: Hmmm...
said by rileyjam514  :And will they be taking some cookies with their Kool-Aid? Seriously, if they're worried about radio signals causing sickness, wouldn't it be smarter to go after cell phones first? I don't buy into them, but at least studies have been done on cell phone use that claims that having a phone up next to your ear can cause tumors. But I haven't read anything on studies that claims WiFi use is dangerous. If the college is going to ban WiFi based on what might happen, there are so many other things that are proved dangerous that they should be banning - like driving and overeating.
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exocet_cm
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New Orleans, LA
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If this president has wifi at his house... or maybe he uses his laptop at a coffee shop? |
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knightmb
Everybody Lies
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Franklin, TN
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| reply to Logan 5
Re: Everything will eventually kill you
What those parents are missing is that there is NOT a real growing concern about it. No more among scientist than cell phones causing cancer, because they just don't!! It's just another $$$ scam to start selling stuff to "protect" you from the radiation that wifi uses. Not like the massive amount of natural radiation that you get just walking outside is higher than 100 years of radiation from the wifi. There is no health concern, only concern to make money by scamming others. Please people, know that the scientific process is very straight forward. Collect information, make theories, compare with others, decide on what fits best. You can always find a quack to spin the numbers and make it seem like a concern, but for the rest of us it's not nor should it be. Cell phones have been around for 20+ years, why don't we all have cancer now? Wifi has been around for a while too, I don't see any related cases of cancer or other health concerns that can be linked to it.
It's just junk science! |
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Babaganooosh
@comcast.net
| Put your heads in the sand fellas...
obviously most people here are biased for technology, but you really dont know the long term affects of things like wi-fi or cell phones.
Years ago they had cigarette ads with Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble. No Lie. DO you think the adverse affects of smokeing were even though of? No way.
For all we know all the different waves bouncing around these days is screwing up our DNA. Ok kinda reaching there, but you get the point. |
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mikes60
My Paradise
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Boynton Beach, FL
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| Hmmm
And this is how describe their university:
"Lakehead’s Advanced Technology and Academic Centre, a modern, high-tech teaching, research and learning facility, has 15 smart classrooms with leading-edge educational technology to support the teaching process, including GIS, virtual reality lab, computer labs and videoconferencing capabilities to connect remote students and experts to Lakehead’s classrooms".
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JoeyDee
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1 edit | People like Gilbert...
Just make me tired.
Really. Let's have a whole generation of dumb Canadian students because they couldn't study/play/research any place they choose on campus. I wonder if Gilbert intends to expel them for rogue NAP's in the dorms. Will he wander the halls at night with a wi-fi detector looking not for a place to get free access but rather a student to reprimand?
Things must be slow at Lakehead in the winter.  |
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djrobx
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| reply to exocet_cm
Re: I wonder
I think you've just stumbled onto something...
Maybe the proliferation of "deadly" Wifi-enabled Starbucks coffee shops is a terrorist plot to wipe out America? Conspiracy at the highest level!
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laserjobs
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Las Vegas, NV
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| How Nuts
I graduated from there in Electrical Engineering 
All I know is there was a lot of pot smoking hippies in the forestry programs.
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knightmb
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Franklin, TN
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| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Hmmm...
said by TKJunkMail :said by rileyjam514 :And will they be taking some cookies with their Kool-Aid? Seriously, if they're worried about radio signals causing sickness, wouldn't it be smarter to go after cell phones first? I don't buy into them, but at least studies have been done on cell phone use that claims that having a phone up next to your ear can cause tumors. But I haven't read anything on studies that claims WiFi use is dangerous. If the college is going to ban WiFi based on what might happen, there are so many other things that are proved dangerous that they should be banning - like driving and overeating. No, more junk science. There is nothing to show cell phones are linked to cancer, none at all.
All you are doing with that statement is helping these people stay in business selling crap such as this below. Anyone can publish a study saying anything. Without hard evidence, it's bonk.
Junk Science in Action for your $$$ Link
»www.cellphoneshop.net/yerash.html |
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DirtyHairy
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Ramona, CA | reply to JoeyDee
Re: People like Gilbert...
He's gonna look silly at commencement with all that tin foil wrapped around his head. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | reply to mikes60
Crap
Dear El president doesn't want WiFi hot spots around the campus he and his cronies don't control |
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Cheese
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Naples, FL
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Re: Everything will eventually kill you
said by Logan 5 :Drinking large amouts ofBeer/Alcohol will also cause 'health concerns' but you don't see them banning drinking on campus or in the dorms/frathouses....do you. In fact, a lot of campuses are doing just that. |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
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Kendall, FL | Just a way to save $$
Just a way to save money by not investing in wireless equipment. |
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