student code of conduct - St. Clair County Community College
student code of conduct - St. Clair County Community College
student code of conduct - St. Clair County Community College
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• Personal advertisement or political lobbying<br />
• The modification or misrepresentation <strong>of</strong> files, data and/or<br />
passwords belonging to others<br />
• Use <strong>of</strong> the college’s trademarks, logos, insignia or copyrights<br />
without prior approval<br />
• Development or use <strong>of</strong> unapproved mailing lists<br />
• Academic dishonesty, including plagiarism<br />
• Violation <strong>of</strong> s<strong>of</strong>tware license agreements<br />
• Actions that would destroy, modify or abuse hardware and<br />
s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
• Infiltration <strong>of</strong> a computer or computing system for any reason<br />
• Forged electronic mail to make it appear as though it originated<br />
from a different person<br />
• Electronic mail that is abusive, threatening, or for sexual, ethnic,<br />
religious, minority or other forms <strong>of</strong> harassment<br />
• Material that is posted or sent that is contrary to the mission or<br />
values <strong>of</strong> the college<br />
• Electronic mail that menaces or harasses an individual or<br />
individuals<br />
Such actions include, but are not limited to:<br />
• Sending or forwarding chain letters or email that uses a pyramid<br />
scheme to distribute communications to an exponentially<br />
growing collection <strong>of</strong> recipients<br />
• Deliberately flooding a user’s mailbox with automatically<br />
generated mail<br />
• Sending mail that is deliberately designed to interfere with proper<br />
mail delivery or access<br />
• Other acts forbidden by federal or state law<br />
• Attempting, successfully or not, to gain access to another<br />
person’s email files<br />
• Intentional distribution <strong>of</strong> computer viruses<br />
• Anything contrary to the college’s board policy<br />
All users are to abide by the 1976 United <strong>St</strong>ates Copyright Law and the<br />
Digital Millennium Copyright Act when using the Internet. Users must<br />
respect the legal protection applied to programs, data, photographs,<br />
music, written documents and other material as provided by copyright,<br />
trademark, patent, licensure and other proprietary rights mechanisms.<br />
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications allow network users to<br />
download and share audio, video and picture files with each other for<br />
legitimate academic endeavors. Use <strong>of</strong> P2P file sharing applications for<br />
the unauthorized acquisition or distribution <strong>of</strong> copyrighted or licensed<br />
material by SC4 network users is prohibited on any SC4 college<br />
computer or the college’s network and may subject a <strong>student</strong> to civil<br />
and criminal liabilities.<br />
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