This policy governs under what circumstances accounts are created, modified and deleted.
The Prism Undergraduate Computer Science Lab's main purpose is to support undergraduate Computer Science major courses. Accounts are available for undergraduate students taking Computer Science major courses. This does not include the COSC15xx courses.
Your account will remain on the Prism system for as long as you are registered in Computer Science major courses. If you are not registered in a Computer Science major course for a given term, your access to the Prism lab will be limited. This means that you will not be able to use a workstation or X-terminal in the Prism lab, nor will you be able to print to the main Prism printers. You may still access the lab remotely, either via telnet, ssh, xdm, or via the Maxwell lab, read e-mail, use the web server, print to the CNS pay-per-page printers, and all other tasks. If you register in a Computer Science major course, then you will automatically be given access to the Prism lab machines and printers for that term.
Important If you do not register in a Computer Science major course for 3 consecutive terms, then your account will be deleted.
Important If you have never been registered in a Computer Science major course (e.g. you are a first-year student) and after receiving an account you have dropped your Computer Science major courses, your account will be deleted.
There is an exception to both of the above cases: if you have already enrolled in a future Computer Science major course, then your account will not be deleted (although it will be limited as described above). To satisfy this requirement you must show up on University records as having enroled in the future course; intent to enrol is not sufficient.
All accounts which are to be deleted will be notified via e-mail 2 weeks in advance of the account's deletion. Once an account has been deleted, all of the associated data, including the home directory and mail spool will have been erased and cannot be recovered.
To be considered to be “registered” in a course, you must complete that course. In other words, you must be enrolled in that course past the final drop date for that course. Dropping the course before this date means that you are not considered to be registered in that course for that term.