Two student newspapers this month successfully fought off subpoenas seeking unpublished materials as evidence in unrelated criminal cases.\n \nThe Orange County District Attorney’s office on May 12 withdrew a subpoena it issued earlier in the month to the Lariat, the student paper at Saddleback College, seeking all notes, unedited video and other documents relating to an April 9 assault on a campus security officer, the paper reported. It was the second subpoena seeking the paper’s unpublished materials about the assault; a previous subpoena was dropped because the subpoenaed Lariat staffer did not have access to the requested video, the paper said.\n \nIn a separate case, the Santa Barbara County Public Defender Office on May 14 dropped a subpoena seeking unpublished pictures taken by photographers for the Daily Nexus, the student paper at the University of California at Santa Barbara, after the editor agreed to provide a