COMPUTER RESOURCES CODE OF ETHICS

      All users of any institutionally maintained electronic data, data files,
software, and networks are expected to handle the resource in a responsible and
ethical manner.  A user's interest ceases when it invades the right of personal
and/or institutional privacy; results in the destruction of personal and/or
institutional property; demonstrates a potential for loss, embarrassment,
litigation to the individual and/or institution; or causes a limited resource to
be used in a wasteful or careless manner.

      All information processed through Computer Services is considered
sensitive and/or confidential.  The responsibility for the release or discussion
of data is assigned to the official custodian of the data file(s).  Access to
information is based on a legitimate "need to know" and directly related to
assigned duties.

      University electronically maintained data, data files, software, and
networks will be used for authorized purposes only.  Users are responsible for
the security of the resources.

      Any use of the resource deemed irresponsible or unethical (as defined in
the Faculty Handbook section 1.10.8) will result in the immediate denial of use
of the resource.  The violation will be referred to the proper authorities for
disciplinary and/or legal action including, but not limited to, restitution,
restrictions, reprimand, suspension, probation, expulsion, termination, and, if
necessary, legal action.  Appeals will be handled through due process channels
(APA) already established for students and/or staff.  Student violations will be
referred to the Vice President for Student Affairs and/or Vice President for
Health Affairs, faculty violations will be referred to the Vice President for
Academic Affairs and/or the Vice President for Health Affairs, and staff
violations will be referred to the Vice President for Administration and
Development.

      The following examples attempt to convey the intent of irresponsible
and/or unethical use:  violation of Federal/State copyright laws; violation of
the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974; use of the resource for
obscene material; deliberate wasteful use of the resource; unauthorized altering
of hardware, software, or data; piracy of data or software belonging to another
person; or careless use of the resource which may result in the release of
restricted information.

      **WARNING** Any person who knowingly brings on campus, has in their
      possession or distributes any virus without the authorization and written
      permission of the Division of Information Resources, will be considered to
      be in violation of the above and will be vigorously prosecuted.  ** Campus
      ** is defined to include any property owned, leased, maintained or
      controlled by ETSU and includes any site or area where any system owned,
      leased, operated and/or maintained by ETSU is housed.

NOTICE TO USERS: It is the policy of East Tennessee State University to protect
all institutional computing resources including, but not limited to, hardware
and software, consisting of the actual equipment being supplied by the
university as well as the programs and related materials used in conjunction
therewith.  In accordance with local, state, and federal law, indiscriminate
examination of individual user's files is not permitted, nonetheless as a means
of maintaining the integrity and security of those aforementioned resources,

      East Tennessee State University retains the right to inspect individual
      accounts and files stored on any system owned, maintained and/or leased by
      said university.  While no prior authorization by individual users is
      required to inspect those files and accounts, you are, by virtue of
      accepting the account offered by ETSU and "logging" on to its computing
      equipment, granting to the university prior unrestricted permission,
      subject to university policy, to review, examine and/or otherwise view, by
      any method at the sole discretion of the university and without any
      additional advance notice to said user, any account and/or file stored on
      university computer resources.

Should such a review take place, you will be given notice, as a courtesy only,
of the results of said review within a reasonable time after the review is
completed.  While use of university computing resources for personal use is
strictly forbidden, should you have materials for which you have any reasonable
expectation of privacy or which you consider to be confidential for any reason,
you should retain those materials on a disk which can be secured as you would
any other personal items or materials which you consider private in nature.

                                                            November 1, 1993