IP: SUU student punished for visit to Hitler site

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

I wonder what else they consider objectionable. Probably a lot of things I read and maybe even the Bill of Rights  djf

From: "Carl M. Kadie" <kadie () eff org> 

Dave,

Under a Southern Utah University computer policy, a student was
punished for visiting a Hitler web site. The policy asserts that
students and faculty no privacy on-line and that they can be punished
for viewing any "objectionable material". Students have protested the
punishment (and the policy) by putting blindfolds on university
statues.

Today's Salt Lake City Tribune reports that the student paper has
called for the policy to be revised.
         http://www.sltrib.com/1999/feb/02231999/utah/85418.htm

Wired News reports today that at least so far, the University is
standing by its policy.
         http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18070.html

A detailed critique of the policy, along with resources for creating
good academic policies, is available from the Computers and Academic
Freedom Project.
         http://www.eff.org/CAF/

Yours,
Carl Kadie
kadie () eff org