I just stumbled across this site, blogs.princeton.edu, which hosts a MT website. I don't see any links to community-produced content. THe home page reads, "The intent of this site is to provide news updates about the Princeton University Blog Service and its server, as well as make available tips, tricks, and tutorials for the community of Movable Type users at Princeton."
About this site « Princeton University Blog ServiceIf you have any tips or techniques for using Movable Type at Princeton, feel free to use the comments, or contact blogs@princeton.edu with an idea for an article, and we may make you a guest author.
The Princeton University Blog Service is administered by the New Media Center, part of OIT Academic Services at Princeton University. The New Media Center reserves the right to limit this blog service to weblogs that are academic-related and/or related to the mission of Princeton University. (Emphasis added)
At Seton HIll, everyone with a blog is automatically given permission to post on the main portal (blogs.setonhill.edu). It's already illegal to slander people, or utter threats, or carry out sexual harrassment. The student handbook (and the faculty handbook) already contains guidelines for what is appropriate behavior while using university resources. While the Academic Technology Committee did revise some internal procedures for what to do in case, for instance, somebody posted an illegal cache of copyrighted material, or anything else that could cause legal trouble for the university, we ended up deciding that a separate statement on blogging policy was not necessary.
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