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Computing and Network Use Policy
Washington and Lee University provides a number of computing and network resources to its students primarily for educational purposes and to its faculty and staff primarily for work purposes. Its Office of University Computing is expected to provide a stable, accessible technology environment for use by the University community.
1. The University enforces necessary restrictions to protect its computing and network resources, including the revocation of use privileges for unauthorized or inappropriate use. The Director of University Computing is authorized to suspend use privileges in any case he or she deems appropriate until final resolution of the matter.
2. The campus network, including its servers and associated software, is the property of Washington and Lee University. Neither the network pathways nor W&L-owned computer systems are to be used:
A. for purposes incompatible with established University codes and regulations or applicable laws,
B. for unauthorized commercial enterprise, or
C. for harassing, fraudulent, or threatening purposes.
3. The following activities are nonexclusive examples of those that are not permitted and that may lead to suspension or revocation of use privileges and other severe penalties:
A. unauthorized access or attempts to gain unauthorized access to confidential information;
B. misrepresenting or attempting to misrepresent one's identity;
C. altering or tampering with the configuration of computers in student labs and other common areas, or installing unauthorized games or other programs on their hard disks or on the shared-files area of the file servers;
D. Any network activity that impedes the flow of network traffic, significantly diminishes the availability of resources to other users, or imposes avoidable burdens on other users (for example, sending mass e-mails instead of using services, such as "Campus Notices," available for communicating with the entire community or large sub-groups).
E. the unauthorized physical or virtual extension
or re-configuration of any portion of the campus
network by such means as routers (wired or wireless),
wireless access points, network wiring, or other methods.
4. Students, faculty, and staff with access to confidential data (personnel, fiscal, or student-records information, for example, or a user's e-mail or files) may use that access only as required in the authorized performance of their duties and must not share any such data except as required by those duties. When official duties do require access to confidential information, the authorized user should look at as little confidential information as possible and may not reveal any such information to others.
January, 1998
amended December, 2002
and February, 2006