The residence halls, Prospect Hill Apartments, the AHR Graduate Apartments, the commuting student lounges in Rothwell and the Graduate Lounge in Life Sciences 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 Public Safety or the hall receptionist. These rooms are available 24 hours a day to students with keys while classes are in session but are closed during the Winter and Summer Breaks. Students who have keys to these rooms are asked to make sure that the Computer Room door is locked when they leave and that they not give access to guests or students who are not Computing Approved or do not have their own key.
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 account s 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.