blevkog

You beat me to it, Kev, I was going to post this tonight. Yeah, this kind of stupidity in a University President is kind of puzzling. Meantime, of course, the tradition of Friday Night Student Keggers will continue - cause of course, noone's ever linked binge drinking to brain damage....

Wow, with all of the electromagnetic waves coursing through our bodies over the last 25 years in the form of long distance telephone calls (both through microwave technonlogy and cell phone transmissions - not sure which wave form they use), TV signals (conventional and satellite), radio signals, walkie-talkies, Radar. These of which are man-made. I have not even included all of the natural radiation that we are constantly bombarded by everytime we step into the sunlight (yes, not all of it is stopped by our atmosphere). Considering all of these, you would think a University with its strong background in science and technology would realize that WIFI networks are not really going to do anything more dangerous than what we are already exposed to. Now I do realize that there is still debate about the cellphone that transmits its signal while you have the phone plastered next to your brain. That would be the only thing I would ever consider as dangerous.
However, the only thing dangerous about a Wi-Fi network is possibly a security risk as anyone with a computer in range could hack into it more effectively (and more anonymously) than a wired network.
Finally, I have said this before, a university degree does not automatically make you smart.
Paul