Marc,
What I have done when giving this type of assignment is to talk to
the lab director. We were able to work out times and places that
students were able to work so that other students would not be
offended. The lab director also knew exactly what the assignment
was and what it was not so
Okay, I just stumbled across this article and think it relates to a
discussion from a few weeks ago about having students look at the websites
of hate groups.
Essentially, a student was barred from using the computer labs on campus
while doing research on censorship for a sociology course. After
Marc Turner wrote:
while doing research on censorship for a sociology course. After viewing a
pornographic picture she (the student) was given a warning because of a
complaint by another student in the lab.
(I'm going to skip the Hitler issue.)
Here, the policy in the computer labs is no