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- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!kadie
- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: User services was: Re: putting lyrics to "Cop Killer" in .plan file
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.022822.5866@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <BETSYS.92Jul21002239@ra.cs.umb.edu> <14i95lINNdmu@nigel.msen.com> <BETSYS.92Jul29173318@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:28:22 GMT
- Lines: 174
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- betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
-
- [...]
- >Funny you should mention that. We just drafted a rough policy file,
- >adn one thing we put in is that providing public services is the
- >responsibility of the administrators and must be approved by us.
- [...]
-
- What criteria will you use? You will likely be pressured to use your
- new authority to censor your users.
-
- If you don't want to become a censor, you may want to look at how
- librarians select material. I'm enclosing references.
-
- You may also want to consider liability. If the school's approval
- process involves "editorial" decisions, you likely increase the
- schools potential liability. (References enclosed)
-
- - Carl
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- student.freedoms
- =================
- Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students -- This is the main
- statement on student academic freedom.
-
- =================
- library/bill-of-rights.ala
- =================
- The Library Bill of Rights from the American Library Association.
-
- =================
- library/freedom-to-read.ala
- =================
- The "Freedom to Read Statement" of the American Library Association
- and Association of American Publishers.
-
- It says in part: "We trust Americans to recognize propaganda, and to
- reject it. We do not believe they need the help of censors to assist
- them in this task. We do not believe they are prepared to sacrifice
- their heritage of a free press in order to be "protected" against what
- others think may be bad for them. We believe they still favor free
- enterprise in ideas and expression."
-
- =================
- library/diversity.ala
- =================
- "Diversity in Collection Development"
-
- An interpretation by the American Library Association of the "Library
- Bill of Rights"
-
- It says that collections should be inclusive, not exclusive. And that
- materials should cover the needs and interest of all patrons. "This
- includes materials that reflect political, economic, religious,
- social, minority, and sexual issues."
-
-
- =================
- library/selection-workbook.ala
- =================
- Full text of ALA's selection policy workbook.
-
- The American Library Association's "Workbook on Selection Policy
- Writing". Although aimed at textbook and library book selection in
- grade and high schools, it also seems applicable to newsgroup
- selection. It includes information about how create a selection policy
- and how to handle complaints. It also includes a sample selection
- policy.
-
- =================
- library/int-freedom.ala
- =================
- "Intellectual Freedom Statement"
-
- An interpretation by the American Library Association of the "Library
- Bill of Rights"
-
- =================
- library/censorship.def.ala
- =================
- The American Library Association's definition of "censorship" and related
- terms.
-
- =================
- law/cubby-v-compuserv
- =================
- Report of a federal district court case which said CompuServe could
- not be held liable for the defamatory content because it exercised no
- editorial control.
-
-
- =================
- law/student-publications.misc
- =================
- Quotes from the book _Law of the Student Press_ by the Student Press
- Law Center (1985,1988). They say that four-letter words are protected
- speech, that public universities are not likely to be liable for
- publications that they for which they do not control the contents, and
- that the _Hazelwood_ decision does not apply to universities.
-
- =================
- faq/netnews.reading
- =================
- q: Should my university remove (or restrict) Netnews newsgroups
- because some people find them offensive? If it doesn't have the
- resources to carry all newsgroups, how should newsgroups be selected?
-
- =================
- faq/netnews.writing
- =================
- q: Should my university allow students to post to Netnews?
-
- =================
- faq/netnews.liability
- =================
- q: Does a University reduce its likely liability by screening Netnews
- for offensive articles and newsgroups?
-
- =================
- faq/censorship-and-harassment
- =================
- q: Must/should universities ban material that some find offensive
- (from Netnews facilities, email, libraries, and student publications,
- etc) in order to comply with antiharassment laws?
-
- =================
- =================
-
- These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/student.freedoms
- pub/academic/library/bill-of-rights.ala
- pub/academic/library/freedom-to-read.ala
- pub/academic/library/diversity.ala
- pub/academic/library/selection-workbook.ala
- pub/academic/library/int-freedom.ala
- pub/academic/library/censorship.def.ala
- pub/academic/law/cubby-v-compuserv
- pub/academic/law/student-publications.misc
- pub/academic/faq/netnews.reading
- pub/academic/faq/netnews.writing
- pub/academic/faq/netnews.liability
- pub/academic/faq/censorship-and-harassment
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom student.freedoms
- send acad-freedom/library bill-of-rights.ala
- send acad-freedom/library freedom-to-read.ala
- send acad-freedom/library diversity.ala
- send acad-freedom/library selection-workbook.ala
- send acad-freedom/library int-freedom.ala
- send acad-freedom/library censorship.def.ala
- send acad-freedom/law cubby-v-compuserv
- send acad-freedom/law student-publications.misc
- send acad-freedom/faq netnews.reading
- send acad-freedom/faq netnews.writing
- send acad-freedom/faq netnews.liability
- send acad-freedom/faq censorship-and-harassment
-
-
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-