Student journalists, seeking to accurately cover the wide range of concerns facing their readers, argue that sex is a topic that can and should be discussed in a school-sponsored publication.
Tag: Spring 2004
Md. high court rules coaches' contracts are public records
The University of Maryland at College Park must make public the details of its employment contracts with athletic coaches, the Court of Appeals of Maryland ruled April 15.
Tips for writing about teen sex
\nTeen psychologists and journalism experts suggested student journalists consider the following tips when they seek to write about sex in a student publication:
\nMedia seek access to athletic director's employment contract
A newspaper and a television station sued the University of Kansas in January for access to the employment contract of athletic director Lew Perkins.
Student photographers settle protest arrest suit
Three student photographers arrested during a September 2002 anti-war and anti-globalization protest settled a lawsuit in December against the District of Columbia.
The old ball and chain
Censorship of student media can take many forms, from administrators punishing student journalists for publishing a newspaper article to student governments taking away the student fee money that funds a radio station.
Mass. police refuse to grant student reporters press passes
The Massachusetts State Police have denied an appeal for media credentials made by a reporter for a student newspaper at Boston College because the paper does not publish daily.
Court hears arguments in Governors State case
The case pits student journalists at Governors State University against a college administrator who claimed she should have the power to review a student newspaper before it was published. A ruling in favor of the student journalists would reaffirm students’ rights to free speech. A ruling in favor of the university could limit students’ rights and give college administrators the ability to institute prior review of college student publications.
Band's security guards seize photojournalist's memory card
Ching Fung had worked for the student newspaper at St. Cloud State University for less than a year when the popular, Grammy Award-winning rock band Evanescence came to town.
Mo. college paper in mediation over cartoon
The editor of a student newspaper at Southwest Missouri State University did not expect an editorial cartoon on Thanksgiving to spark controversy, but a student group’s complaint that the cartoon was discriminatory has landed her in school-sponsored mediation with the group this spring. The newspaper’s adviser, also under fire by the student group, refused to be involved in the mediation process.