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- From: escheire@sunlab.cit.cornell.edu (Eric Scheirer)
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- Subject: Re: Request or order? [was Re: I've just been repremanded...]
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 08:37:26 GMT
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- Note on prosecution due to "the reasonable request of a University official":
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- The Cornell Code of Conduct contains such a clause. I'll quote it here.
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- > A. To refuse to comply with any lawful order of a clearly identifiable
- > University official acting in the performance of his or her duties in
- > the enforcement of University policy.
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- However, I think the key clause here is "in the enforcement of University
- policy". I interpret this to say that if there's no official policy in place
- censuring whatever it is being done, the order may be ignored.
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- Also, note that the CCC has "lawful order" in place of "reasonable request".
- I think this is as it should be; reasonable requests are far too wide-
- ranging to be handled by policy.
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- I don't have any particular problem with this policy. From what I'm seeing,
- other schools' should be more like this one.
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- Eric Scheirer - Sun Undergrad Lab Consultant - escheire@sunlab.cit.cornell.edu
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- Any opinions expressed above are mine alone, and are not intended to
- represent views of the Cornell CS Dept, or Cornell Information Technologies --
- I don't even work for CIT!
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