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∂MLOT Professor Gerald Lieberman$$Resignation∞
	My decision to drop out of LOTS completely and abandon my
suggestion that I be chairman of a revived Advisory Board was taken
during the meeting with you on Friday.  The meeting reminded me of
how unpleasant it has been dealing with you, starting with your
hectoring about the delays in getting started and continuing with
your contemptuous attitude towards student use of computers
to improve their writing.  Since I didn't experience this
with either of your predecessors as official
in charge of LOTS, I conclude it's you not me.

	While my previous work in time-sharing was in a research
environment, converting student use of computers from batch-processing to
time-sharing has been one of my goals since the beginning of my
time-sharing research in 1958, and the opportunity to start LOTS in 1975
was important to me.  Setting it up so that a FTE staff of four (in
contrast to SCIP's hundreds) could serve 3000 users was another important
goal, and I was happy to confirm that it was possible - at least with an
exceptional person as Manager.  If your hobby of meddling doesn't provoke
Ralph into quitting, LOTS should survive, but I expect the leadership in
student computing to pass to some other university.

	It is my regret at abandoning work in which I have invested a lot
of thought that has caused me to express my opinions sharply and in
writing.  Because of this sharpness, my resignation as Director of LOTS is
effective immediately.

.sgn
cc: Professor Donald Kennedy, provost; Professor Edward Feigenbaum;
Mr. Ralph Gorin