[jacquesm]

On a colocation facility that you own using a net port that you pay for yourself?

As soon as you expose someone downstream to stuff like this you're asking for being disconnected. If you ask your University nicely they'll likely refuse unless you state a goal you wish to achieve.

If using a script to download documents qualifies as hacking then hitting all of the internet with a portscanner is likely going to get you network administrator attention of the entirely wrong kind. And that's because they in turn will get some flak from the outside world.