Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 17-Dec-95 Re: Is ths legal?... by Alan Olsen@teleport.com
In looking at their homepage, it appears to be a state funded school. (There is not alot of background on the school history or affiliations on their homepage except for a note that it was founded by the territorial legislature a number of years before becoming a state..)
My understanding is that it is a state school. But for state action to be present, there has to be a significant interdependent relationship constituting a nexus of state action between the state and the university. Like administrators being appointed by agents of the state government. State funding by itself is not sufficient. If that were true, CMU -- which receives almost half its revenue from the government -- would have to behave reasonably. (It doesn't; check out http://joc.mit.edu/~joc/cmu.html) -Declan (not a lawyer)