April 26, 2002
Virginia Tech Police Seize a Professor's Computer in Vandalism Case
Some faculty members at Virginia Tech say they're worried about their privacy and their intellectual-property rights following an incident this month in which campus police officers seized a professor's computer to search it for an e-mail message as part of a vandalism investigation.
Martha McCaughey, an associate professor who is director of the women's-studies program, found two campus-police officers waiting outside her office door one afternoon. They entered and took her
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