SMC Computer and Network Use Policy

Santa Monica Community College District Administrative Regulation Section 2000: General District contains detailed information about SMC's computer and network use policies for faculty, staff, and students. Under AR 2515, the purpose of computer and network use is described as follows:

The Santa Monica Community College District provides a wide array of technology resources to staff, students and faculty. These resources are intended to advance the educational, scholarly, and service missions of the District. Technology computing resources are a limited and finite resource that each and every user needs to respect. Every user is expected to use the technology resources in a manner which does not infringe upon use of those facilities by other people and which does not waste either "soft" resources (e.g., computer time) or "hard'' resources (e.g., paper, disk space, documentation materials). The guidelines discussed here are intended to insure that the security of the system is protected consistent with the user’s right to privacy and fair share of available resources. Users agree to read and abide by this regulation.


Under section 3 of System Security:

No computers or network accounts shall be used for unlawful purposes, or in violation of district policies or procedures.

Appropriate and Inappropriate Use, section 1, states in relevant part:

Users shall not use technology resources for non-District fundraising or commercial purposes.

Users shall not use technology resources for any activities which violate state or federal laws. Computing resources may not be used to intimidate, threaten or harass individuals, or violate the college's policies concerning relationships between college constituencies. Such activities include, but are not limited to, using computing resources to store, print, or send obscene, slanderous, or threatening messages.

Under Process for Suspension and Termination of Use:

Users understand that violation of this regulation may result in suspension or termination of computer, network account and other access and, depending upon the circumstances, may result in disciplinary action. Violations will be processed through normal District channels. If the activity is also unlawful, it may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution.

Academy of Entertainment and Technology (AET) Professor David Javelosa allegedly violated SMC's computer and network use policies by maintaining personal webpages, movies, and music on the AET servers that contained violent and sexually inappropriate material that was hidden from the SMC administration, students, and general community. His massive amount of material, including numerous mp3 songs he created, wasted both soft and hard computer and network resources. Additionally, by redirecting his javelosa.com website to AET's school servers, and advertising such on his personal MySpace account, he was using the school's limited resources, paid for by the public, for commercial purposes to promote his own personal music.

As far back as March 2005, Professor Javelosa was advertising his music for commercial purposes using the AET school servers, including his "Music for Teenage Sex." According to the website drummachine.com, Javelosa, acting under the alias David Microwave, was part of The First Annual Ultimate GDC Game Audio Party. GDC stands for Game Developers Conference. The GDC was charging an admission price for their event of $10.00. Javelosa lists himself as "an instructor at Santa Monica College's Academy of Entertainment and Technology teaching interactive media." His bio also states the following:

The same year he collaborates with Charles Hornaday and members of Los Microwaves in the group Baby Buddha, which releases only "Music for Teenage Sex". That album includes dissonant electronic cover tunes and some wacky originals. All work on the Posh Boy record label. From San Francisco.

Javelosa offers a link to his "David Microwave website." Simply place your mouse on this link and look at the status bar at the bottom left of your web browser. What do you see? This commercial website links directly to the Academy's website, where Javelosa teaches! This page is hidden in a folder called DJ under his ET13 course at AET. However, if the user went to the ET13 course pages, there is no direct link. This clearly shows that he was concealing this misuse of limited AET resources from the school's eyes. Shame on Javelosa. Here's a screenshot with the AET link showing on the bottom left of the Internet Explorer status bar:



For several years, Professor Javelosa was allowed to misuse our school resources for his own personal and commercial purposes. Mp3 songs included, but are not limited to:

Live and Lumpy
Weird Thrash Hop
At Least Its Friendly Fire
Fallouja
Here Come the Body Bags
Seeds of Deception
The Power and the Glory
Thematically Related Warfare
Permissive Attitudes
I Don't Want To Hold You
Young & Ready
Acid 4 Alicia
Take it EZ Sleazy
Loving U Remix
Frosty the Chicken
Hold the Chicken
Tender Gentle Remix
Twiddly Patterns
G-Spot
Krispy Kat Whack
Los Microwaves: Time to Get Up
Return to Forbidden Planet

Overall, back around March 2006, I was able to download approximately 342 megabytes of mp3 music that Javelosa had illegally placed on the Academy of Entertainment and Technology's public school server. Add to this over 6 megs of skydiving videos, which server no educational purpose whatsoever. This does not include all the personal and commercial html pages (with images and photos) he maintained for both him and his son. To give you a comparison of what a vast waste of prime real estate this was on the AET server, the entire newly created AET server, with legitimate links, only came to 390 kilobytes! Not only do these mp3s take up physical space, but they also use expensive bandwidth for downloading. This bandwidth is billed to the school's ISP. This cost is ultimately transferred to the taxpayer. With the high salary that Professor Javelosa allegedly made, he could have afforded to host his commercial music on his own privately paid website. Clearly, the school administration should take action to have Professor Javelosa reimburse the school for this cost.

For related SAVE SMC Blog articles relevant to this post, see the following:

06-18-06: Santa Monica College Sex Scandals Exposed: Part 1
06-20-06: Santa Monica College Sex Scandals Exposed: Part 2
06-20-06: Professor David Javelosa's Underage MySpace Friends

-- Des Manttari,
Editor-in-Chief,
Phoenix Genesis

(c) 2006: Phoenix Genesis/MBS LP

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