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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Computer Usage Policy Statements?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.173533.2578@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:35:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.110340.1@amherst.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- =============== ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/policy ===============
- q: What guidance is there for creating or evaluating a computer policy?
-
- a: The first thing to do is to get a copy of your university's Student
- Code. It often protects student and staff freedom of expression,
- privacy, and due process rights. It is not just a piece of paper; it
- is part of the legal contract between student and university. Any new
- policy must be consistent with this policy.
-
- You may also find the unofficial, draft Statement on Computers and
- Academic Freedom (CAF) useful. Also the CAF Archive contains the
- policies of many schools, some with critiques.
-
- Finally, you may wish to look at the CAF Law archive. Speech
- restrictions at public universities have been struck down consistently
- by recent federal courts. Also, the courts require due process before
- serious punishments can be applied to students.
-
- - Carl Kadie
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- caf-statement
- =================
- This is an attempt to codify the application of academic freedom to
- academic computers. It reflects our seven months of on-line discussion
- about computers and academic freedom. It covers free expression, due
- process, privacy, and user participation.
-
- Comments and suggestions are very welcome (especially when posted to
- CAF-talk). All the documents referenced are available on-line.
- (Critiqued).
-
- =================
- caf-statement.critique
- =================
- This is a critique of an attempt to codify the application of academic
- freedom to academic computers. It reflects our seven months of on-line
- discussion about computers and academic freedom. It covers free
- expression, due process, privacy, and user participation.
-
- Additional comments and suggestions are very welcome (especially when
- posted to CAF-talk). All the documents referenced are available
- on-line.
-
- =================
- policies/README
- =================
- Computer Policy and Critiques Archive
- [part of the Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive
- [part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Archive]]
-
- This is a collection of the computer policies of many schools and
- networks. The collection also includes critiques of some of the
- policies.
-
- The archive is accessible via anonymous ftp and email. Ftp to
- ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4). It is in directory "pub/academic/policies".
- For email access, send email to archive-server@eff.org. Include the
- line:
-
- send acad-freedom/policies <filenames>
-
- where <filenames> is a list of the files that you want. File README is
- a detailed description of the items in the directory.
-
- For more information, to make contributions, or to report typos
- contact Carl Kadie (kadie@eff.org). Directory "widener" contains
- additional policies (but not critiques).
-
- =================
- widener/README
- =================
- This directory is a mirror of ftp.cs.widener.edu:pub/cud/schools/*.
- It is a collection of the computer polices of many schools. For a
- description of the file see file "widener/Index". Also see directory
- "policies".
-
- =================
- law/README
- =================
- CAF Law Archive
- [part of the Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive
- [part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Archive]]
-
- This is an on-line collection of law related to computers and academic
- freedom. It includes both case law and legislation.
-
- The archive is accessible via anonymous ftp and email. Ftp to
- ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4). It is in directory "pub/academic/law".
- For email access, send email to archive-server@eff.org. Include the
- line:
-
- send acad-freedom/law <filenames>
-
- where <filenames> is a list of the files that you want. File README is
- a detailed description of the items in the directory.
-
- For more information or to make contributions, contact Carl Kadie
- (kadie@eff.org).
-
- =================
- law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
- =================
- The full text of UWM POST v. U. of Wisconsin. This recent district
- court ruling goes into detail about the difference between protected
- offensive expression and illegal harassment. It even mentions email.
-
- It concludes: "The founding fathers of this nation produced a
- remarkable document in the Constitution but it was ratified only with
- the promise of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment is central to
- our concept of freedom. The God-given "unalienable rights" that the
- infant nation rallied to in the Declaration of Independence can be
- preserved only if their application is rigorously analyzed.
-
- The problems of bigotry and discrimination sought to be addressed here
- are real and truly corrosive of the educational environment. But
- freedom of speech is almost absolute in our land and the only
- restriction the fighting words doctrine can abide is that based on the
- fear of violent reaction. Content-based prohibitions such as that in
- the UW Rule, however well intended, simply cannot survive the
- screening which our Constitution demands."
-
-
- =================
- law/goss-v-lopez.fischer
- =================
- Comments from _Teacher's and the Law_, 3rd edition, by Louis Fischer,
- et al. Published in 1991 by Longman. It reports that the Supreme Court
- says that some modicum of due process is necessary unless the matter
- is trivial or there is an emergency.
-
- =================
- =================
-
- 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/caf-statement
- pub/academic/caf-statement.critique
- pub/academic/policies/README
- pub/academic/widener/README
- pub/academic/law/README
- pub/academic/law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
- pub/academic/law/goss-v-lopez.fischer
-
- 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 caf-statement
- send acad-freedom caf-statement.critique
- send acad-freedom/policies README
- send acad-freedom/widener README
- send acad-freedom/law README
- send acad-freedom/law uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
- send acad-freedom/law goss-v-lopez.fischer
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-