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   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
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     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
  Widener University in Chester, PA                A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone
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     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
  Widener University in Chester, PA                A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone