From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 10:20:39 +0800
To: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Is ths legal?...
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On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:

> Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 17-Dec-95 Re: Is ths legal?... by
> Alan Olsen@teleport.com 
> > In looking at their homepage, it appears to be a state funded school.
> > (There is not alot of background on the school history or affiliations on
> > their homepage except for a note that it was founded by the territorial
> > legislature a number of years before becoming a state..)
> 
> My understanding is that it is a state school. But for state action to
> be present, there has to be a significant interdependent relationship
> constituting a nexus of state action between the state and the
> university. Like administrators being appointed by agents of the state
> government.
> 
> State funding by itself is not sufficient. If that were true, CMU --
> which receives almost half its revenue from the government -- would have
> to behave reasonably. (It doesn't; check out
> http://joc.mit.edu/~joc/cmu.html)
> 
> -Declan
> (not a lawyer)

Obviously.

> 
> 

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