Terms and Conditions

Overview

English @ SUNY Geneseo is a network of websites administered by the Department of English at SUNY Geneseo. It has two broad purposes: (1) to facilitate intellectual conversation and collaboration among faculty, students, and staff at SUNY Geneseo across course sections, whole courses, and a variety of shared interests, and (2) to provide a platform for publishing individual and collaborative work by SUNY Geneseo faculty, students, and staff.

By registering an account at sunygeneseoenglish.org, you consent to abide by the terms and conditions set forth below. These terms and conditions may be modified at any time; please check them periodically for changes. Your continued use of the network after such changes are made constitutes your acceptance of the changes.

Accounts

Any SUNY Geneseo student, faculty member, or staff member may register for an account on the network. A geneseo.edu domain email address is normally required.

Membership in the network is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this document. Members who fail to abide by these terms and conditions will have their accounts terminated.

Limitations

English @ SUNY Geneseo is administered by faculty and student volunteers. The administrators make no warranty that the network will function properly and without interruption, or against the loss of content that you post to the network. It is strongly recommended that you keep a personal copy of any content that you contribute to any site on the network, including blog posts, forum posts, documents, and comments.

Moderation

All participation in the network is subject to moderation by the network’s administrators.

The presence of content in the network does not constitute endorsement of such content by SUNY Geneseo or the network’s administrators. In using the network, you may encounter content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable. Neither SUNY Geneseo nor the network’s administrators assume responsibility for content posted to the network or for the impact of such content on you.

If you encounter content that violates the "member responsibilities" enumerated below, you should report the abuse immediately to contact@sunygeneseoenglish.org.

Member rights

As a member of the network, you are the exclusive owner of content that you contribute to it, subject to the following exceptions:

By posting public content to the network (content that is visible to others and that is not password-protected), you grant the network’s administrators a nonexclusive right to reproduce that content for the purpose of exhibiting the network and its functionality to third parties – for example, at an academic conference, in an academic paper, or on a website intended to provide information about the network.
On sites in the network that have additional, more restrictive terms and conditions, your rights may be more limited. For example, on a site that serves as the platform for a collaborative project, the terms and conditions may stipulate that your contributions to the project are the property of the project team as a whole.

Member responsibilities

All members

You agree

not to post, upload, or distribute any user comments or other content that is unlawful or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive, indecent, pornographic, invasive of another’s privacy, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate
not to violate the copyright of any individual by posting content that you do not have the right to distribute
not to use the network for any illegal purpose, or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law, including, without limitation, laws governing intellectual property and other proprietary rights, and data protection and privacy

Faculty and staff

You agree

not to require any student to post public content on the network (i.e., content that is visible to anyone other than you and the student) as a condition of participation in any credit-bearing class or other activity at SUNY Geneseo
not to attach a grade or other quantitative evaluation of content posted to the network by a student in such a manner that it can be viewed by anyone other than you and the student

Best practice

In general, you agree to honor the spirit of civil conversation and collaboration that the network was created to promote. In responding to comments and other content posted by members of the network, the best way to honor this spirit is to address the content itself, not the creator of it.

An animating principle of the network is the idea that many students seek an audience for their ideas and other creative content beyond the classroom. However, not all students seek such an audience. Faculty and staff who use the network in conjunction with their classes should respect this difference. The best way to do so is to give any student who does not wish to share content publicly the option, without penalty, to share such content with the instructor alone by placing the content behind a password.

Recent Blog Posts

Jenna McFarland wrote a new blog post Apocalypse and the trailing stereotypes in the group American Studies: 6 days, 15 hours ago

Jenna McFarland

Essay 1

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Isaac Schiller edited the blog post Dead Ted: Head (of State?) in the group American Studies: 1 week ago

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Spencer Jurgielewicz wrote a new blog post in the group American Studies: 1 week ago

Piper, Spencer, Bailey, Ronald, and Mackenize

A Liquid is, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, flowing freely like water, not being a solid nor gas, something that holds its volume. Liquidity, […]
McKinley Skala wrote a new blog post Apocalyptic Nature of “Wild Seed” in the group American Studies: 1 week, 1 day ago

“Wild Seed”, by Octavia Butler, is a novel that plays with the system of slavery within a community as a powerful being, Doro, uses people with valuable powers to create stronger generations for the future. Dor […]
Marie Naudus wrote a new blog post My Definition of Apocalypse through Santana Kaplan, Butler, and Everett in the group American Studies: 1 week, 2 days ago

After the first month of class I can confidently say I have learned a lot about the word “apocalypse.” From what started on the first day of class as our personal understanding of the term, to working through […]
Sage Kearney wrote a new blog post How can apocalypse be interpreted from our texts? in the group American Studies: 1 week, 2 days ago

Many place associations to the word “apocalypse” with very vivid and stereotypical ideas. Some might envision fire, desolate places, zombies, etc. Within the novel Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler, the […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post The Need to End All Worlds [for the sake of better beginnings] in the group American Studies: 1 week, 2 days ago

The act of reconstruction is a constant performance. To go about rebuilding anything—city, country, mindset, world, language, or person—there must be the original pieces of what was destroyed or, at some lev […]
Kya Primm wrote a new blog post How to Start an Apocalypse For Dummies in the group American Studies: 1 week, 2 days ago

Prior to registering for “Black Apocalyptic Fiction”, my association with an apocalypse began and ended with a sepia dust field screen, zombies, and a core group of characters with spirited personalities who ove […]
Savannah Burley wrote a new blog post Apocalypse Through the Lens of Butler and Kaplan in the group American Studies: 1 week, 2 days ago

When scrolling through English classes to take at the time of picking classes, Black Apocalyptic Fiction caught my eye. Maybe I was fascinated with the term apocalypse, or maybe I was fascinated seeing Octavia […]
Marlee Fancett wrote a new blog post Moving Beyond a Binary View of the Apocalypse in the group American Studies: 1 week, 2 days ago

A month ago, if you asked me to define the word “apocalypse,” I probably would have said “the end of the world.” While this isn’t necessarily wrong, my understandings of how the world could end were certainly […]

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