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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.
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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign