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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Cornell changes computer speech policy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.024154.13975@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <9301281414.AA18924@rose.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:41:54 GMT
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- >Excerpted from this morning's Cornell Daily Sun:
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- >Lynn said that access to computer networks would be temporarily
- >closed, only in the case of files containing obscene or offensive
- >material, such as sexually explicit screen savers and an anti-Semitic
- >role-playing game.
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- The 11/19/92 Cornell staff newspaper sheds some light on this:
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- "Following national trends, Cornell saw an increase in reported cases of sexual
- harassment over the past year that university officials ascribe to increased
- awareness due to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings nationally and
- intensified campus efforts to educate and advise people here about sexual
- harassment.
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- Some new trends also emerged, according to a report issued by the
- Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO): increases in reporting from
- undergraduates and in anonymous sexual harassment; two cases involving
- violence and battering beyond anything reported in previous years; new
- avenues of high-tech harassment being utilized; parents of students
- becoming more active in initiating reports; and cultural differences
- increasing as a contributing factor.
- [...]
- High-tech harassment increased, with four reports of harassment
- via computer in the form of offensive electronic mail messages, screen
- savers, computer graphics and sexual sounds being sent to terminals.
- [...]
- One person was assisted in writing a letter to a harasser, and
- one offensive computer screen saver was removed from a network server.
- [...]"
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- Here is the gopher bookmark for the story:
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- Name=Cornell Chronicle (11/19/92): Sexual harassment reports increased by 55% last year
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- Path=R0-9796-//.files/CH111992/CH11199203
- Host=red-dwarf.cit.cornell.edu
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- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
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