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ONE YEAR AGO: What to do about the new Newsgroup Censorship Policy at ISU

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From: David M Edsall
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:33
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In <1991Dec16.152546.14765@news.iastate.edu> i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- ) writes:


>>|> 	1) The policy was not developed by the Comp Ctr committee which
>>|> 	   developed the original "open learning environment" policy.
>>|> 
>>|> 	2) The policy was brought to the Comp Ctr Newsgroup committee
>>|> 	   who did not approve it.
>>|> 
>>|> 	3) The policy was brought to the University Computation Advisory
>>|> 	   Committee (Computation Center Advisory Sub-Committee) who
>>|> 	   did not approve it.
>>
>> So who did approve it?   
>>
>>--
>>Dick


>     Absolutely necessary information! Who drafted this plan? Who approved 
>it? If someone reading this knows but can't say directly because of
>employment considerations, my phone number is 233 - 5164, the answering
>machine (with my girlfriends voice on it, don't be fooled) will listen politely
>to whatever you have to say :-)



>    I think the following steps ought to be taken:


>	1. organizational meeting, I know most of you, but we need
>	   a good (unmonitored) meeting about this :-)

>	2. some sort of press, beyond the Daily, covering this censorship.
>	   I know the nice AP lady here in town, I'm sure all of you
>	   have similar ideas - "Censorship @ state university - page 3
>	   of Today section in the register"

>	3. Identification of parties involved. I want to know who
>	   picked the groups to be blocked, and I want to know who
>	   approved this.

>	4. Contact the Gay etc etc, whatever the acronym is this month,
>	   and let them know that a.s.motss is going to be cut -
>	   I'd say this is grounds for a discrimination suit.

>	5. Start a student organization dedicated to the protection
>	   of ISU students from impure influences ... and my choice
>	   for first target is going to be removal of all copies of
>	   the bible from the library - someone please track down
>	   a list of the erotic parts (yes, really, I think some are
>	   in the song of solomon). I mean really, if we're gonna
>	   have censorship, lets get everything in one fell swoop,
>	   right ;-)


>     Well, that'll do for a start. Looking forward to Tuesday :-)

>--
>   Neal   i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu
> "A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!"
>   - Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade
>"Despite the sunrise, the darkness never goes from some men's eyes"
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From: edsall@iastate.edu (David M Edsall)
Subject: ONE YEAR AGO: What to do about the new Newsgroup Censorship Policy at ISU
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