Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Subject: Re: Harrassment via email Message-ID: Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Nntp-Posting-Host: herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL References: <1545@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1803@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 23:48:17 GMT In <1803@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> marchany@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Randy Marchany) writes: [...] >"A conservative is a liberal who was mugged." [...] And a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. What is needed is balance. The computer policy at BU and many other schools is very one-sided. It reminds me of the general student policies that were in effect at many universities until the late '60s and early '70s. In 1967, the Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students was adopted by many university-related organizations (like the American Association of University Professors). Many (most?) universities then incorporated the principles of the Statement in to their student code. Here at the U. of I., for example, the principles were recognized in 1971. The Statement asserts (in contradiction to the BU computer policy) that Students have free expression rights, privacy rights, and due process rights. It also asserts that students have the right to participate in the formulation and application of University policy. If you are at an academic site, please review the Statement (and your own Univeristy's general policies) before setting down a computer policy. The Statement is available via anonymous ftp from eff.org as file academic/student.freedoms. The Computers and Academic Freedom archive also includes a history of general student policy at the U. of I. from 1904 to present. It is as file academic/reg2rights. - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign