For folks on each campus, I suggest one of our first tasks to fight this apparent FBI fishing exppedition is for concerned faculty/staff/students on that campus to meet with each campus's Student Services administrator or another administrator and impress on the administrator our insistance that the college or university follow the policy that no student files will be turned over to law enforcement authorities without either a subpoena or the affected student's consent, unless there is a specific "health and safety" reason that can be verified.
At UCI if you want to join in this effort, let me know. For background, see article below. dan .......................... From: http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=SIEGE-COLLEGES-09-27-01&cat=AN FBI going after college students' files By TERRI HARDY Sacramento Bee September 27, 2001 - Federal agents have been targeting college campuses as part of their investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, gathering lists of foreign nationals and combing through files. The scope of the inquiries has raised concerns that the investigation is proceeding at the expense of individual freedoms. At least three California State University campuses have turned over information about students to the FBI. The University of California's Office of the President said it has not received official reports from the schools, but believes federal officials have asked for details on students at all of its campuses. ,,, Corye Barbour, legislative director for the United States Student Association, a national organization representing student governments at more than 150 colleges and universities, said she was troubled that authorities have had carte blanche with student information in the aftermath of the attacks. "On top of that, the administration wants blanket access to student records with no time limit attached," Barbour said. "Will it be OK to get information on all international students, all students with Muslim-sounding names? There is no discussion about where the line is drawn." Omar Moheyeldin, an international student attending California State University, Sacramento, said there should be restrictions. "It shouldn't be personal information," he said. "And it shouldn't be only for Muslims or for Arabs - that would be discrimination." ... The Immigration and Naturalization Service has asked for information about at least one student at UC Berkeley, said Chuck McFadden, a spokesman for the University of California's office of the president. After discussions with other campus officials, McFadden said his office is confident that "in some way, shape or form" all campuses had been contacted by federal officials. He would not provide details about the information being requested other than to say authorities wanted information about specific students. .... Daniel C. Tsang Host, Subversity, Fridays, 5-6 p.m. KUCI, 88.9 FM and Web-cast live via http://kuci.org Subversity: http://go.fast.to/sv; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Tsang, KUCI, PO Box 4362, Irvine CA 92616 UCI Tel: (949) 824-4978; UCI Fax: (949) 824-2700 UCI Office: 380 Main Library Member, National Writers Union (http://www.nwu.org) AWARE: http://go.fast.to/aware WWW News Resource Page: http://go.fast.to/news Personal home page: http://go.fast.to/ar To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ujOgTC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN-ANNOUNCE: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network - Event Announcements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=laamn-news> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn-announce> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://home.labridge.com/~laamn> | LAAMN | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
