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From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie)
Subject: Re: A Note from UNM anout MAKING MONEY
Message-ID: <C9HpBy.EI7@cs.uiuc.edu>
Followup-To: news.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
References: <20svi3INNalk@lynx.unm.edu> <20ts92$m6b@scratchy.reed.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 14:23:57 GMT
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Followup-to: news.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk

Lew Newby UNIX/VMS Coordinator Backup University of New Mexico writes:

> I am the postmaster at UNM, [...] please refrain from mailing to the
> postmaster at any unm.edu machine [...]

wrowe@reed.edu (W. Rowe) writes:

>This is a little vague. Do you, or do you not condone the posting made by
>one of your users -- in essence, an illegal pyramid-scheme?
[...]

Don't expect detailed answers ...

Federal law prohibits all public and most private universities in the
U.S. from disclosing disciplinary information about students. Also, at
many (most?) universities, the university disciplinary committee makes
the final decision about what is what is allowed and what is
prohibited (not individual university staff such as sys admins or
professors).

I personally I'm not completely happy with the federal law's secrecy
requirements, but it is the law. I am glad that most universities try
to provide due process to students who request it.

- Carl

ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

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law/ferpa.text
=================
* Privacy -- Students -- FERPA (Buckley Ammendment)

The full text of the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act
(Buckley Amendment).

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law/README
=================
* Law related to Computers and Academic Freedom

CAF Law Archive
  [part of the Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive
     [part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Archive]]

This is an on-line collection of law related to computers and academic
freedom. It includes both case law and legislation.

If you have gopher, the archive is browsable with the command:
  gopher -p academic/law gopher.eff.org

The archive is also accessible via anonymous ftp and email. Ftp to
ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4). It is in directory "pub/academic/law".
For email access, send email to archive-server@eff.org. Include the
line:

send acad-freedom/law <filenames>

where <filenames> is a list of the files that you want. File README is
a detailed description of the items in the directory.

For more information or to make contributions, contact J.S. Greenfield
(greeny@eff.org).

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caf
=================
* About the CAF mailing lists (and newsgroups)

A description of 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?

=================
=================

If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
   gopher gopher.eff.org

These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/law/ferpa.text
  pub/academic/law/README
  pub/academic/caf

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom/law ferpa.text
send acad-freedom/law README
send acad-freedom caf





-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
 = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =