Student disciplined for improving campus course-selection system
Timothy Arnold, a student at the University of Central Florida, produced a app called U Could Finish that automated the process of hunting for vacancies in popular courses. After the app was the subject of a popular Reddit post, the administration at UCF punished Arnold for doing this, on the grounds that it had overloaded their servers. As a persuasive presentation from Arnold and friends documents, this claim is not very plausible. Nevertheless, the project has been terminated and Arnold faces three semesters of academic probation, a paper in which Arnold must explain why what he did was naughty and why the system’s administrators are good people, and a coaching session on making good life sessions.
Hey, I know what will inspire college students to make clever and helpful things! Let’s punish them for making clever and helpful things!
YEAH! HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE WIN!
…sigh. Fuckin’ Florida.
