[984] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy Changes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl M. Kadie)
Sun Jul 14 16:11:56 1991
From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1991 19:56:27 GMT
Apparently-To: eff-mail-com-priv@eff.org
geoff@fernwood.mpk.CA.US (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow) writes:
>Remember "the discussion" of the ANS Acceptable Use Policy some 3 months ago?
>Where any changes ever made or announced?
I don't know, but I would hope that (most) universities would refuse to be
a party to censorship and speech restictions.
The major statement of academic freedom for students is the "Joint
Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students". It has been endorsed by
the American Association of University Professors and the U. S.
National Student Association (and others). My favorite line from the
statement is "The institutional control of campus facilities should
not be used as a device of censorship." Here is some more of the
statement:
Preamble
Academic institutions exist for the transmission of knowledge, the
pursuit of truth, the development of students, and the general
well-being of society. Free inquiry and free expression are
indispensable to the attainment of these goals its members of the
academic community, students should be encouraged to develop the
capacity for critical judgment and to engage in a sustained and
independent search for truth.
[...]
B. Freedom of Inquiry and Expression
1. Students and student organizations should be free to examine and
discuss all questions of interest to them, and to express opinions
publicly and privately. They should always be free to support causes
by orderly means which do not disrupt the regular and essential
operation of the institution. At the same time, it should be made
clear to the academic and the larger community that in their public
expressions or demonstrations students or student organizations speak
only for themselves.
2. Students should be allowed to invite and to hear any person of
their own choosing. Those routine procedures required by an
institution before a guest speaker is invited to appear on campus
should be designed only to insure that there is orderly scheduling of
facilities and adequate preparation for the event, and that the
occasion is conducted in a manner appropriate to an academic
community. The institutional control of campus facilities should not
be used as a device of censorship. It should be made clear to the
academic and larger community that sponsorship of guest speakers does
not necessarily imply approval or endorsement of the views expressed,
either by the sponsoring group or the institution.
[...]
1. The student press should be free of censorship and advance
approval of copy, and its editors and managers should be free to
develop their own editorial policies and news coverage.
[...]
[The full text of the Joint Statement is available via anonymous ftp
from eff.org as file academic/student.freedoms. - Carl]
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@eff.org or kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- But I speak for myself.
