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Office of the Dean of Student Life
Know the rules for
proper Internet use
Illegal software, ignored
copyrights, or electronic
harassment can land
students in hot water
By Michael Hines
Editor in Chief
Even though the computing
center sends a copy of Internet
guidelines to everyone who starts
a new account, the rules aren’t al
ways followed.
According to Joe St Sauver, as
sistant director of University
Computing, some students break
those rules willfully and inten
tionally, and others do it because
they don’t know any better.
“We see very few folks who run
into problems with it,” St Sauver
said.
Last year, nine computing cas
es were referred to the University
Office of Student Life, said Elaine
Green, associate dean of student
life.
“We see them regularly,” Green
said. She estimated student life
handles between six and 10 com
puting cases each year.
The most common World Wide
Web cases deal with copyright,
according to Green and St Sauver.
“Something doesn’t have to be
registered to be copyrighted,”
Green said.
Therefore, students cannot put
copyrighted music or print stories
on their Web sites. They can,
however, create links to sites that
do have the desired material.
Another problem is sharing ac
counts. The University’s system
of 330 modems is constantly in
use, St Sauver said, and if stu
dents are sharing their accounts it
burdens the system that is aimed
at students.
In addition, much of the soft
ware that students have access to
is paid for by the University on a
per-student license fee basis.
The computing center is also
concerned with electronic priva
cy. The University Conduct Code
addresses privacy and states:
“The code prohibits, among other
things, lewd or indecent conduct,
threat of physical harm, stalking,
forgery, intentional disruption of
University services, and damag
ing or destroying University prop
erty.”
"We don’t want you doing
things like distributing viruses or
worms or e-mail bombs,” St
Sauver said.
The University has an estimat
ed 100,000 Web pages on its more
than 200 servers. The gladstone
server alone has about 4,000 Web
authors.
This kind of access to the Web
gives University students free
doms, St Sauver said, and the
freedom "has responsibilities as
sociated with it.”
The computing center isn’t
looking for trouble, St Sauver
said.
“We actually aren’t like the
judge, jury and executioner or
anything,” he said. “We’d like to
encourage people to go ahead and
use their accounts, but use it re
sponsibly.”
The number of instances of stu
dents not using their accounts re
sponsibly has risen over the years.
Green said.
“It’s been a growing number as
more students are online and be
come more sophisticated,” she
said.
Some students are aware of the
rules before they are referred to
student life, she said, and some
don’t. Those who do violate the
rules can receive a number of
sanctions.
“We make sure they under
stand the policies, but also in a
number of ways have taken away
access to an account,” Green said.
So far, the toughest sanction stu
dent life has given for an Internet
case has been denying access to
an account.
Some of the computing guide
lines are fundamental. The guide
lines give an example: “If you are
given access to an administrative
computing system solely to enter
accounting information or pre
pare class rosters, it is inappropri
ate for you to use the system to
play a compute-intensive online
computer game.”
Other prohibited behaviors
include interception or diver
sion of network transmissions,
accessing clearly confidential
files and accessing confidential
files about an individual with
out consent.
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