Concordia Theological Seminary provides electronic resources and access to those resources for its students. These resources include computers in Walther Library, the Lilly Computer Lab, and the Ph.D. Study Room for word processing and accessing electronic resources on the campus intranet and the world-wide internet. Also included are data ports in the seminary dormitories and classrooms. Because the seminary is "dedicated primarily to the preparation of students for the pastoral ministry and missions of the LCMS," the priorities for use of computing resources at the seminary are the following:

The seminary may enforce these priorities by restricting or limiting usages of lower priority in circumstances where their demand and limitations of capacity affect or threaten to affect usages of higher priority.

Each person with access to the seminary's computing resources is responsible for their appropriate use and by his use agrees to comply with all applicable seminary and departmental policies and regulations, and with applicable City, State and Federal laws and regulations, as well as with the acceptable use policies of affiliated networks and systems.

In using the seminary's computing resources, students and those associated with the seminary will display responsible civil and Christian behavior. The seminary does not currently use any filtering program on its computers to disallow certain activities. It is expected that each individual will use good moral judgment in conducting himself in the use of the computing resources. Violations of these general standards will be handled by departmental policies and procedures. The examples which follow are not exclusive, but are only indicative of the standards which the seminary expects in the use of its computing resources. As citizens of (or residents in) the United States, the users of the seminary's computing resources:

• must respect property right laws, especially copyright laws, in the use of software. Illegal copying of copyrighted software or of textual material is not permitted, since it is against the law. In addition, it is a violation of the seventh commandment regarding stealing.
• must respect laws regarding the creating, displaying or transmitting of threatening, racist or harassing materials. Material which may be protected by federal law, but violates Christian ethics because it tends to injure or bear false witness (violations of the fifth and eigth commandments) is not permitted.
• must respect laws regarding obscenity and child pornography. Because behavior governed by the sixth commandment is much broader than applicable laws, however, seminary users are expected to avoid the display of any site which might be considered obscene or pornographic.