Professor Lilliehook

As an educational island administrator, I can only add my shock and frustration to the growing list of discontent posted here already. I am just finding it so very hard to believe that the numbers of residents who utilize non-profit and educational sims are a tremendous burden on LL. These sims validate the many uses of a virtual world. They, like their real life counterparts, are vital to any community. A world made up of shopping malls, strip clubs and sex toy shops will be ridiculed beyond LL worst nightmares. Education and non-profits create the balance in Second Life that is essential to it's survival. It's not just about more money. Some of us might be able to come up with a little more money. It's about a community of residents, artists, students, young, old--where skin color, sexual orientation, height, weight, religion and all the other trappings that stifle our real world civilization---can be equalized for the greater good. I would be very sad to have to abandon Second Life, but if everyone else leaves---our university probably will leave as well in time. We are evangelists...our administrators with the cash, are not.