Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: publicly-readable "adult" gifs (was Re: Ohio State University CIS Policies) Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 20:49:36 GMT References: <1991Jun3.165946.12637@eff.org> <1991Jun3.173550.13928@eff.org> <1991Jun3.232500.24850@ms.uky.edu> <1991Jun4.004016.20415@eff.org> Followup-To: comp.admin.policy Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 34 In-reply-to: cgd@ocf.Berkeley.EDU's message of 8 Jun 91 20:58:33 GMT In article cgd@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >In article jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: > Not having been an RA, I can't say exactly > what they're required to watch out for, but I do recall one who nearly > had a nervous breakdown keeping an eye on the fifteen-year-old on her > floor. >Theoretically, by the time a person is in college, they should be >old enough to decide much for themselves Theoretically, I agree. I don't know if her job *required* her to give special attention to that minor (are RA's legally considered to be acting in loco parentis?), I just know that she did. It's similar to keeping an eye on students who are underage for liquor (most of them, these days...); I don't know what the legal basis for their interest is, but I know they're interested. Of course, I thought that the parents of this student were damn fools for putting her in a dorm at fifteen. >sure wouldn't want to go to that school! fascism just doesn't do it >for me... Ooooh, he used the f-word. Gratuitously, IMHO. When I get back from Usenix I'll contact the dorm folks and ask about the legal position of their staff with respect to their charges. I suspect that "fascism" has nothing to do with it. "The motto of the place is 'Knowledge in pursuit of excellence'. Not truth, not beauty, not art or science. Just excellence." -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)