a qualm

[Guest guest]

Today a man who works on the " in-house " (faculty/staff) newspaper

where I work called to ask if I'd be willing for him to do a " staff

profile " on me. About autism, of course. It sounds like a good

opportunity for advocacy/education (if I don't totally blow it and he

doesn't screw up the POV). So I said okay, as long as it wouldn't be

necessary for me to talk to him until after the first of the year.

After he said that was fine and he would call me and we hung up, I

realized that one obvious thing for me to do is to suggest he take a

look at my web site first. And it would be natural to ask him to list

the URL in the article, too ( " for more information.... " ). Not that my

site is so informative, but it is mine (and therefore logical to

include) and it does have links to 's site and autistics.org and

neurodiversity.org et al.

But then I realized: my site is on the university's server. The rules

say that staff are allowed to create a web site on the server as long

as the site contributes to the work they do at the U.

Hmmmmm. So if I invite folks at the U to visit my web site, I'm

" busted " and kicked off the server. No more web site. (I hope they'd

give me a chance to back-up the pages on disk before removing them,

but there's no guarantee.) I think I *probably* would not be fired

for the offense of wasting server space and breaking the rule about

staff web sites. Unless the administration decided to make an example

out of me for some reason.

Inconvenient.

Jane