Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!cs.widener.edu!brendan From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Need info on computer acct policy Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 13:13:12 GMT References: <1991May27.191409.21941@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991May28.045958.12369@eff.org> Reply-To: brendan@cs.widener.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 40 In-Reply-To: kadie@eff.org's message of Tue, 28 May 1991 04:59:58 GMT Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy From: kadie@eff.org (Carl Kadie) Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 04:59:58 GMT Most university computer policies seem to have been set down without serious user participation. Are there exceptions? Has anyone respected academic freedom (and possibly their own student code) and given users a voice? At the end of this semester, we finally agreed to agree upon an account policy. This boiled down to me writing one up and bringing it in front of the CS committee. (Comprised of the 3 system admins [Vax/Sun/PCs], the student rep, the 5 faculty members, and the lab manager [handles student consultants, etc].) It's just an amalgamation of the various parts of policies from other schools (with heavy influence from Boston University). I'm gonna try to have our school's lawyer[s] look it over before this fall, just to make sure the language is right, and to make sure it doesn't overstep any bounds. I imagine (hope) that after maybe a semester of it being in place, people will have comments or questions about certain parts of it. Only problem with that is that for the most part, signing such an agreement is just par for the course, especially when you're being blitzed by forms and a million new experiences (as most Freshmen are). So the critiques of the policy will probably only come from the Sophomores and higher. Also, the number of people here that actually would *care* about account rights is very low here. (This is both a blessing and a curse.) We'll see how it goes. Brendan -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone