By Student Press Law Center
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In 1988, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier drastically curtailed the free press rights of K-12 students, but the decision didn’t address collegiate press and has since been applied inconsistently to journalists in the post-secondary setting. This month, Executive Director Frank LoMonte interviews Nicole Comparato, the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Miami Law Review. Comparato proposed a better-defined public forum category for college press in her article for the UM Law Review, “Combatting Institutional Censorship of College Journalists: The Need for a ‘Tailored Public Forum’ Category to Best Protect Subsidized Student Newspapers.”