Article 15:

(15) Misuse of computer facilities or resources, including:
(A) Unauthorized entry into a file, for any purpose.
(B) Unauthorized transfer of a file.
(C) Use of another's identification or password.
(D) Use of computing facilities, campus network, or other resources to interfere with the work of 
    another member of the University Community.
(E) Use of computing facilities and resources to send obscene or intimidating and abusive messages.
(F) Use of computing facilities and resources to interfere with normal University operations.
(G) Use of computing facilities and resources in violation of copyright laws.
(H) Violation of a campus computer use policy.

Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006
TO: Kris Stewart, Chair, Instructional and Information Technology Committee
FROM:  David Ely, Senate Vice Chair
RE:  Referral - New CSU Student Code of Conduct

Kris -

At its November meeting, the CSU Board of Trustees approved a new CSU 
Student Code of Conduct.  The Committee on Educational Policy 
summarized their new policy in the following way.  "The substantive 
content of the revised draft is not radically different from the 
substance of the existing code. But it is a clearer expression of the 
university's positive expectations of students and the specific 
grounds that can form the basis for discipline. There are some new 
bases for discipline that did not exist when the original code was 
drafted (e.g., computer misuse)."   (CSU Board of Trustees Agenda, 
November 7-8, 2005, Committee on Educational 
Policy;  http://www.calstate.edu/BOT/Agendas/nov05/EdPol.pdf ).

The new code appears on pages 5-10 of the attached document and is 
available online at: 
http://www.calstate.edu/BOT/Agendas/nov05/index.shtml.  One section 
of the new code, Section 41301.b.15, addresses the misuse of computer 
facilities or resources.  The Senate officers ask the Instructional 
and Information Technology Committee to consider whether the SDSU 
Policy File needs to be updated to reflect the newly adopted code on 
computer use and to report your recommendations to the Senate.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding 
this referral.
__________________________________________
David Ely
Department of Finance
College of Business Administration
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-8236
Telephone: (619) 594-6842
Fax: (619) 594-3272
www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~elyweb/