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A colleague and I taught ourselves hypertext markup language with the
assistance of some books. Learning the language is tedious, but really not too
difficult. This was the fun part. Once we had created the pages, we
were ready to publish them on the web; however, this wasn't as easy
as I had anticipated, since all of the servers at our university
are controlled solely by Academic Computing and individual
departments are not allowed to own servers or to manipulate
university servers. So, we had to persuade Academic Computing to
put up our pages. My first meeting with the Academic Computing
Manager was unproductive. As the voice of university policy, she
refused to even look at the pages until I had a formal letter which
stated that faculty members supported the OWL. Such a letter is
required because I am a graduate student without faculty member
privileges, so I persuaded the department chair and a faculty
advisor to agree to write letters stating that the department
supported creating an OWL. Then, I finally took the web pages and
the sealed letters to the Academic Computing Manager.
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