From: comp-academic-freedom-talk@eff.org
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:34:35 -0400
Subject: Abstract of CAF-News 02.44
Newsgroups: comp.society

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[Week ending September 6, 1992

========================== KEY ================================
The words after the numbers are a short PARAPHRASES of the
articles, or QUOTES from them, NOT AN OBJECTIVE SUMMARY and
not necessarily my opinion.
===============================================================

  [We need new guest (or regular) editors, for information send
   email to kadie@eff.org.  - Carl]

Notes 1-5 are distinct; no significant threads developed  during this first
week of classes at most schools. It looks like most of us were busy with
other things!

1. On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes. "This is a policy
statement from the American association of University Professors. The
statement was endorsed by AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
and by its Council at their meetings in June 1992."
    <1992Sep1.232150.23045@eff.org>

2. "Women Against Censorship" is a collection of essays by feminists
opposed to censorship and certain antipornography movements. Excerpts here
discuss antipornography law, its effect on the feminist movement, its
potential for polarizing feminists against one another, and the
relationship between civil liberties and feminism.
    <2519@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>

3. This is a reposting from ClariNet of a UPI article concerning censorship
in the classroom. People for the American Way, a civil liberties group,
reports that censorship or challenges of textbooks, classic novels, and
other materials are at their highest levels in 10 years of surveys. Censors
appear to be more successful now than at any time in the past four years.
The most frequent rationales for challenges were that the materials were
Satanic, New Age, or anti-Christian. Objectionable language and offensive
sexuality were the next most frequent rationales.
    <1992Sep1.214241.984@m.cs.uiuc.edu>

4. Carl Kadie updates us on recent changes to the CAF Archive, where
information on computers and academic freedom is kept. Material includes
back issues of the CAF newsgroup discussions and CAF-News digests, book
reviews, legislators' addresses, frequently asked questions on a number of
topics, reports on laws and litigation, and more.
    <1992Sep2.210144.8139@eff.org>

5. Not so much because it's pertinent to computers and academic freedom,
but because there's room this issue for it, here is a recent edition of
John December's wonderfully useful list of Internet information resources
and services. A browse through it will tell you where to look for: the
electronic texts of books on networking; electronic journals and
newsletters; Gopher and WAIS services; BBS lists; e-mail addresses; network
etiquette; weather maps; and much more. It's the Swiss Army knife of
Internet information!
    <fwd.1992Aug31.143606.11405@m.cs.uiuc.edu>

- Mark]

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