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From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: Harrassment via email
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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
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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
