Please excuse the double posting as it didn't appear that my forward
of last night went through. This symposium is a follow up to the
events at CSU Monterey Bay involving public, electronic forum remarks
disparaging disabled people and the resulting acrimony.
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3/14/00
CSUMB Disability Community, friends, and potential friends,
Please join us and disability representative panelist Anthony Tusler at
our President's Symposium
“Freedom of Speech and the Internet”
March 15, 2000: 6-7:30 p.m.
World Theater, Building # 28
Sign language interpreters will be provided.
CSUMB's First Live Interactive Webcast. Go to http://www.csumb.com for
additional information
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(Seaside, Calif.) Members of the media are encouraged to attend a
symposium entitled “Netizenship: Freedom of Speech and the Internet” which
will be held this Wednesday! The symposium will be open to the community
via a live, interactive Webcast at www.csumb.edu
People are no longer as likely to pick up the phone or cross the street to
talk to each other as they are to turn on their computer and open up their
email. In the past decade, the nation has begun to grapple with the
evolving standards of behavior that now govern communication between
individuals.
In response to the evolution of electronic communication as a primary form
of daily human interaction, California State University, Monterey Bay
(CSUMB) will hold a President’s Symposium on respectful computing. Members
of the community can take part in this symposium by visiting the CSUMB
Website, www.csumb.edu, and clicking on “Netizenship: Freedom of Speech
and the Internet.” The cyber-audience will have the opportunity to send
their comments or questions to the panel of experts via email in addition
to being able to see and hear their responses, in real time.
The symposium, which was conceived after a recent conflict on the
university’s Intranet database, will begin with CSUMB’s Chief Technology
Officer, Dr. Lev Gonick, addressing the issues of responsible e-mail use,
which Dr. Gonick refers to as “Netizenship.” The symposium will include
three panelists: Mr. Bruce Richardson General Council of the CSU
Chancellor’s Office, Mr. Anthony Tusler, Disability Specialist at Santa
Rosa Community College, and Dr. George Baldwin, a CSUMB Social and
Behavioral Sciences faculty member.
Each panelist will have the opportunity to address the concept of using
CSUMB’s e-mail system, FirstClass, in a responsible, legal, civil, and
non-threatening manner. At the conclusion of the panelist remarks,
dialogue will be opened up to include the audience. Several hundred
faculty, staff, administrators, and students are expected to attend.
President Peter Smith says, “As a university community, we are wrestling
with the difference between protected speech and offensive and even
illegal speech. As the university develops a standard for our internal
community, forums such as the President's symposium will be a big help. I
am also pleased that the cyber audience will be given an opportunity to
express their concerns and ask their questions. After all, this is an
issue that affects the way we relate to each other not just on campus, but
in the surrounding communities and beyond.”
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Live Digital DJ's Noon til 2 and 4 to 5 Mon. thru Fri.
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