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Article #12Re: A question of ethics
From: Carl M. Kadie
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:06
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:06
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[After some discussion of a hypothetical case ...] miw@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Mark I. Williams) writes: > The *student* has no >rights in this case, because all resources used belong to the >university. [...] In the U.S., students have contractual rights, Constitutional rights (at state schools), and (harder to defend) academic-freedom rights. - Carl ANNOTATED REFERENCES (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.) ================= law/constraints.contractual ================= Comments from _A Practical Guide to Legal Issues Affecting College Teachers_. Explains that University Code is part of the contract between the student and school. The University can be liable for a breach of the contract (i.e. for not following its own rules). ================= law/constraints.constitutional ================= Comments from _A Practical Guide to Legal Issues Affecting College Teachers_ by Partrica A. Hollander, D. Parker Young, and Donald D. Gehring. (College Administration Publication, 1985). Discusses the constitutional constraints on public universities including the requires for freedom of expression, freedom against unreasonable searches and seizures, due process, specific rules. ================= student.freedoms ================= Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students -- This is the main statement on student academic freedom. ================= caf ================= A description to the comp-academic-freedom-talk mailing list. It is a free-forum for the discussion of questions such as: How should general principles of academic freedom (such as freedom of expression, freedom to read, due process, and privacy) be applied to university computers and networks? How are these principles actually being applied? How can the principles of academic freedom as applied to computers and networks be defended? ================= ================= To get these documents by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org. Include the line(s): send caf-law constraints.contractual send caf-law constraints.constitutional send acad-freedom student.freedoms send acad-freedom caf The files are also available via anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4) as file(s): pub/academic/law/constraints.contractual pub/academic/law/constraints.constitutional pub/academic/student.freedoms pub/academic/caf -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Newsgroups: cs.general,aus.aarnet,comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!m.cs.uiuc.edu!herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Subject: Re: A question of ethics Message-ID: <1992Apr13.160652.26966@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Keywords: ethics cracking law Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL References: <9209917.8951@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Apr12.161105.7659@news.iastate.edu> <miw.703127098@brolga> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:06:52 GMT Lines: 72