A ban on University of Arizona workers seeing, downloading, printing, or saving cyberporn on university computers - unless it's research-related - has passed both house of the Arizona legislature.
"Downloading diagrams of derrieres in the name of science is all right, but surfing the Net in search of smut should be grounds for a UA employee’s termination," is how the UA student newspaper, the Arizon Daily Wildcat put it April 14.
The paper said the new bill would apply to material "show(ing) or simulat(ing) sexual intercourse of all kinds, oral sex, masturbation, nudity, or sexually aroused genitalia." But it would also make for more paperwork for university administrators, "who must come up with a way of getting clearance for professors and researchers who work with material that could be considered pornographic," the Wildcat added.
Professors and researchers using computers for research work involving nude paintings, print diagrams of human reproductive systems, breast cancer research, and similar subjects, would have to get formal clearance from UA President Pete Likins' administrative level "to do their jobs" starting next fall, if Arizona's Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano signs the bill, as she's all but expected to do, the Wildcat said.
