Getting Started documents and diskettes for personal use can be purchased from both groups. The residence halls, Prospect Hill Apartments, the AHR Graduate Apartments, and student lounges in Rothwell have Power Macintoshes and printers available in small computer rooms. User Assistants associated with each living group serve as the contacts for problems with equipment or software. With proof of Computing Approval, keys for these rooms can be checked out for the semester from the hall receptionist. These rooms are available 24 hours a day to students with keys while classes are in session.
All students using the room are responsible for keeping it clean and neat for other users.
Most academic buildings also have department computing facilities that may be available for use by majors in their department and programs. The College respects the right of computer software authors to be paid for the products that they produce. Accordingly, students, faculty, and staff are prohibited from making copies of copyrighted programs stored on any college-owned desktop and central systems. All members of the Mills computing community also agree that they will not use copyrighted text, images, sounds, video and other web objects in electronic form on web pages, CD-ROMS, and other electronic publications without appropriate credit to and permission from the owner for the use of such materials. Every member of the Mills community who receives an account to work on college computing systems agrees to protect their own work and respect the work and privacy of other members of the community by restricting the use of their accounts to themselves and not allowing other individuals to use their accounts or to know passwords for their accounts.