Scott Bennet> If he discovers that neither his campus library nor the university as a
whole is already officially running at least one relay, this may be a better way to teach them. If, rather than going for a relay, which is quite likely to scare them until they understand more and better about tor, AJ were instead to campaign to get the library to install the tor browser bundle onto its publicly available computers, that alone would be a terrific coup and might engender a great deal of student support for tor on campus over time. (The library would, of course, need to find a way to lock down the settings of the installed bundle, so that it couldn't be turned into a relay by users, but that should not be difficult to do.) If he succeeded in getting the tor browser bundle added to the library's most likely tightly limited list of applications available on its public machines, he could then wait a while to see what the staff members thought of it. If they decided after watching it in use for a while that it was a good thing to have made available to their users, you might then approach another department that operates a student computer lab to try to get TBB installed there. If the library employees liked it, they might give the prospective department a positive recommendation. If AJ played it right and it usually turned out well, he might eventually cover much of the campus with TBB installations. In any case, getting the TBB installed would educate far more people about anonymity and privacy issues than merely getting a relay installed that most people would never be aware of.
This is a great idea, and the slides I shared in my last email could help get this conversation started (the slides cover Tor Browser as well as relays and other Tor stuff). If AJ is interested I can connect him with other libraries I've worked with that have installed Tor Browser on all of their public computers.
Alison