Information Technology Services (Student Computer Laboratories) Order 2005 (Cth)

THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (STUDENT COMPUTER LABORATORIES) ORDER 2005

The Council of the Australian National University makes this Order under section 4 of the Information Technology Services Statute 1999.

Dated: 10 December 2004.

Peter Baume AO

Chancellor

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Name of Order and commencement

1 (1) This Order is the Information Technology Services (Student Computer Laboratories) Order 2005.

1. This Order commences on 31 December 2004, immediately after the commencement of the Orders (Repeal) Order 2004.

Interpretation

2 In this Order, unless the contrary intention appears:

"laboratories" means the student computing laboratories referred to in clause 3;

"Rules" means the Information Technology Services Rules;

"services" means the University's Information Technology Services within the meaning of the Statute;

"software" means the licensed products, computer programs and data and includes any updates and new releases of products;

"Statute" means the Information Technology Services Statute 1999;

"user" has the same meaning as in the Rules.

Application of Order

3 This Order applies in relation to those computing laboratories provided by the University for general student use--it does not apply to computing laboratories provided by Halls of Residence or individual departments.

Student computing laboratories

4 The conditions of access to, and use of, the laboratories are as follows:

(a)a student or a member of staff must not provide access to a laboratory to any third party who is not a student enrolled in the University or a member of the staff of the University;

(b)a user must provide proof of identity if requested to do so by a member of staff of the University;

(c)the laboratories are to be used solely for activities relating to undertaking study at the University;

(d)a user or other person who is not involved in a class must vacate a laboratory at the request of a lecturer who has the room in which the laboratory is located booked for the class;

(e)a user must not attempt to gain or use an unreasonable share of a laboratory's resources (including, but not limited to, disk capacity, printer paper, server or processor time or time using desktop machines);

(f)a user must not damage, remove, make inoperative, or make to appear inoperative equipment in a laboratory;

(g)a user must not run games software on equipment in a laboratory, or use that equipment for Web browsing for entertainment, or for playing "MUDs" (Multi-User Dungeons and Dragons), or network chat;

(h)a user must not smoke, eat or drink in the laboratories;

(i)a user must not bring, or permit entry, into a laboratory any animal (except a guide dog);

(j)a user must not behave in a way which interferes with other users' reasonable access to, or use of, the equipment (such as by creating a disturbance, making excessive noise or entering during classes);

(k)a user must comply with the Discipline Rules regarding harassment and intimidating behaviour;

(l)a user must not use the laboratories for or in relation to behaviour that constitutes sexual harassment including the gratuitous use or display of pictures or objects with sexual connotations in a work or study environment within the University in circumstances in which another person reasonably feels offended, humiliated or intimidated;

(m)a user must not use the laboratories for private gain.

User may be required to leave

5 If a person contravenes clause 4, any member of the University staff may require the person to leave the laboratories.

Offences and Penalties

6 (1) A person who contravenes this Order or fails to comply with a request under clause 5, commits an offence.

Penalty:

:	For a first offence:	$100 or suspension of the person's access to the Information Technology Services
For a second offence:	$250 or suspension of the person's access to the Information Technology Services
For a third or later offence:	$500 or suspension of the person's access to the Information Technology Services.

(2) If a user does not comply with the University's Statutes, Rules, Orders or conditions relating to particular services, in addition to, or substitution for, any other penalty, the user's access to services may be revoked.

[NOTE: The provisions of Part 4 of the Rules dealing with appeals against decisions applying penalties apply in relation to this Order.]

Application of Rules about appeals

7 The suspension and appeal procedures set out in the Rules apply to contraventions of this Order as if the contravention were a contravention of the Rules.