Members present: David Bainum, Bob Boncella, Becky Bostian, Barbara Burgess(for Chuck Tumlinson), John Christensen, Shel Cohen, Gary Forbach, Cindy Hornberger, Susan Hsia, Scott Johnson, Robin Kruschinska, Kandy Ockree, Oscar Plaza, Bill Radcliffe, Cecil Schmidt, Brad Siebert, Brenda White, Thimios Zaharopolous, Eugene Williams and Ron Wasserstein, chair.

Support staff: Jack Sunderland and Rugena Hall

Minutes from the September 9, 1998 meeting were approved.

Wasserstein introduced Eugene Williams, new KTWU general manager and new member of the Electronic Technology Committee.

Forbach handed out meeting information on the Computer Subcommittee to its members and asked they return meeting dates and times survey to him ASAP.

A few members are having problems printing the information Wasserstein sends them by email. They asked he send the minutes, agendas, etc. in an ASCII text file. He will do so and asked the members to contact him if they still have problems.

Wasserstein asked if the committee was ready to approve the timeline "draft" for the lab policy plan. Motion was made and seconded, discussion ensued. Several concerns were raised. If this only covers existing labs, what of new labs? Who decides what category the new labs are? The need to clarify systems administration was voiced. Control of computer technicians who are funded by individual departments was a concern. A friendly amendment was proposed to have policy sent back to the committee with the following concerns addressed, new labs, systems administration, and responsibility of technicians funded by individual departments.

A motion was made to accept the WWW Policy, distributed before the September 9 meeting. The legality of the policy was questioned. Ken Hackler worked on the policy, parts have been tested in court, however, the main concern is to show a "good faith" effort to manage web pages. A concern was voiced that student web sites were not covered under the policy. A motion was presented to change the definition of entity to include students. Motion was withdrawn. A wording change was proposed, to replace "Faculty and staff..." with "Faculty, staff, currently enrolled students and approved university entities..." The motion as amended was passed.

President Farley will attend the October 7th meeting but John Moore will be out of town. He will be invited to a future meeting.

The VPAA office will send out information for technology requests from the deans this year instead of Bill Radcliffe.

Concerns from members: University Council still has an issue with the Electronic Technology Committee and will get that issue to ETC soon. The School of Business faculty is having problems with their computers locking up when they are in ADP for advising during enrollment. Wasserstein will check with Jim Evans and David Bainum regarding the problem.

Meeting was adjourned at 4:56 pm.