High school students and administrators often have very different ideas about what kind of language is appropriate. On school grounds administrators usually have the last word, but questions are being raised when the speech occurs off campus and not on school time.
Tag: Spring 2008
Thanks and congratulations
A penny saved means thousands earned for the Student Press Law Center, thanks to some creative teachers and their energetic students.
Cutting off the grapevine
It is not unusual to hear stories about administrators in higher education censoring student media; what is strange is when the students ask officials to censor content.
Charles O'Malley, 93, friend and supporter
Scholastic journalism lost a loyal and enduring champion with the March 19 passing of Charles O'Malley, a former director of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. He was 93.
Getting in the game
Going it alone
A student paper in New Jersey is unable to print its first issue of the semester because the student government that funds the paper freezes its entire budget. Three editors of the student paper at a private university in Illinois resign when officials tell them they cannot publish controversial content without prior approval. A student paper in Colorado is kept in the dark about a media giant's attempt to buy it. All these events happened this year at colleges where the student papers are still under the watchful eye of the university administration.
Campus Press under pressure
Journalism faculty met with Campus Press staffers on April 2 to discuss the possibility of separating the publication from the journalism department. The meeting, which was taped and posted on the Campus Press Web site, quickly became tense as Herdy commented on a lack of faculty support for an independent Campus Press.
From freeze to freedom
After years of struggling to be released from the financial reins of the Student Government Association, the student paper at Montclair State University finally gained independence from the SGA ' but it was no easy feat.
College Censorship In Brief
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that advocates students' free expression rights, filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 31 against Troy University for a speech code FIRE's President David French called "incompatible with a free society."
Advisers In Brief
Administrators at Shorewood High School reinstated Steve Kelly for the 2005-06 academic year as adviser of Imprints, the school’s literary magazine, after he was asked to resign last year when the publication he oversaw printed a poem about a sexual experience.