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What responsibility do I bear...with regard to civility and respect for others? Actions which make the campus intimidating, threatening, demeaning or hostile for another person are considered serious offenses by the University. Contemporary technology makes it possible for mistakes to be made more rapidly, and spread about more widely, than ever before. When you compose, send, or redistribute electronic mail or voice mail, when you create or publish postings to World Wide Web pages (including images, blogs, social network sites, Twitter, or chat rooms), or mailing lists, or produce and submit for campus broadcast video materials, consider whether you would make identical statements face to face with the person or people who may read, hear or view your work. The same principles pertain regarding people or groups you may address outside the Princeton University community as to those within. As stated in Rights, Rules, Responsibilities: "Respect for the rights, privileges, and sensibilities of each other is essential in preserving the spirit of community at Princeton. Actions which make the atmosphere intimidating, threatening, or hostile to individuals are therefore regarded as serious offenses. Abusive or harassing behavior, verbal or physical, which demeans, intimidates, threatens, or injures another because of his or her personal characteristics or beliefs or their expression is subject to University disciplinary sanctions...." RRR language also states: “Free inquiry, free expression, and civility within this academic community are indispensable to the University's objectives. Inclusion of the name, telephone number, and/or e-mail address of the University sponsoring organization or individual member of the University community on material resembling petitions, posters, and leaflets distributed on campus, including material disseminated using campus information technology resources or University Internet access is encouraged, since such attribution promotes or facilitates civility as well as vigorous debate in the academic community. Anonymous public postings without sponsorship of a recognized University organization shall be removed or deleted if a complaint by a member of the University community is lodged with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students or the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School." Surveillance cameras and other such devices should not be used in places or ways that violate a reasonable expectation of privacy on the part of those whose activities are to be monitored or recorded. Locker rooms, restrooms, personal residences or dormitory rooms are some of the places where persons reasonably have an expectation of privacy, and in which adequate notice and consent of the subject(s) should precede the use of any photographic or sound recording device. Capture and dissemination of images and sounds in such situations without such notice and consent of the subject(s) is disrespectful of their rights and may violate University policy." Using the campus technologies or access to network technologies provided by the University under its name, or in any other venue in which you are acting as an agent of the University, you must refrain from creating and sending, posting, or displaying, or causing to be sent or posted, or displayed, or assisting to create and send or cause to be sent, posted, or displayed, any malicious, harassing, or libelous messages or statements regarding another person, via e-mail, instant message, text message, Twitter or voice mail, by posting to blogs, mailing lists, social networks or newsgroups, by posting to the World Wide Web, by issuing as a virtual reality avatar, or by inclusion in a video produced for broadcast via the campus network, TigerTV, or YouTube or similar service. When creating public postings of any kind, keep in mind the power of the World Wide Web to broadcast and preserve your statements. Any ill-considered postings may survive your commitment to them, and, because of the distributed nature of Web indexing, may be very difficult to expunge in the future. You must be sensitive to the public nature of shared facilities, and take care not to display on workstations in such locations inappropriate images, sounds or messages which could create an atmosphere of menace or harassment for others. You also must refrain from transmitting to others in any location inappropriate images, sounds or messages that are clearly threatening, hostile, or harassing in contradiction to the code of civility defined in RRR. If the deliberate use of anonymity or pseudonymity in electronic communication is for fraudulent purposes or accomplished with the intent to harass another, misrepresent oneself as another, or any other behavior in conflict with RRR, it will be considered a serious transgression. You must not use another's accountable resource or account-affiliated access or personal computer without authorization. If you encounter an open session that exposes another's accountable resource, close the session and try to notify the individual, whether within the Princeton.EDU domain or elsewhere on the Internet. It is considered a serious transgression to exploit the accidental exposure of another's account or to borrow or steal another’s identity . Without authorization, you must not attempt to enter and listen to another person's voice mail, or enter and read another person's e-mail, or other electronic messages or file, even when these are accidentally exposed to your access. It is considered a very serious transgression to gain unauthorized access to another's accountable resources or another’s personal computer or workstation, e-mail, or files, through deliberate action. Previous Section  |
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9/9/09
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