Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Saturday, February 22, 2003
Cal Poly Campus's Faculty Faces Battle Over Proposed Anti-Pornography Resolution - SCOTT CARLSON, the Chronicle

Faculty members at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo are preparing to do battle over academic freedom and harassment as they face an engineering professor's proposal to ban the viewing of pornography on campus computers. Linda Vanasupa, the chairwoman of the materials-engineering department, plans to file a resolution with the Academic Senate to prohibit using the university's computers or its Internet connection for viewing pornographic material. Academics and students would need permission from the university president to look at pornography online.

 



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