Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 01:36:39 GMT References: <1991Jun1.164136.4553@herald.usask.ca> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu In <1991Jun1.164136.4553@herald.usask.ca> lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) writes: [...] >The UNIVERSITY bought the equipment. The UNIVERSITY owns the equipment. The >UNIVERSITY gets to say how the equipment is to be used, who can use it, and >what rules these users have to follow. [...] I would only add that it is the policy of most universities to create and administer rules with the participation of faculty and students, to respect the privacy of faculty and students (by, for example, allowing searches of office space under certain very controlled conditions), to make rules clear and specific, to give students accused of violating rules a formal hearing (if the student so wishes), to promote free expression by saying that "[t]he institutional control of campus facilities should not be used as a device of censorship." In my opinion, any university employee who violates this policy should be disciplined. For example, a sys admin who expels a student from the general university computer system without recourse to a formal hearing should find him or herself subject to a formal disciplinary hearing. And, of course, any university computer policy that contradicts general university policy (i.e. almost every university computer policy I've ever read) is null and void. -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign