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Author: Liz White

Pa. high schooler wins JEA Journalist of the Year award

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May 15, 2009September 5, 2018 Liz White

The Journalism Education Association announced high school senior Henry Rome as the winner of the Journalist of the Year scholarship at its spring convention in Phoenix this April.

Tagged Berwyn, Cape Cod Times, Conestoga High School, Journalist of the Year, Pa., the Spoke

West Georgia SGA passes bill to freeze money to student newspaper after publishing anti-Greek column

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May 8, 2009December 4, 2018 Liz White

The editor-in-chief of the student newspaper and a group of students at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton are protesting a series of proposals by the Student Government Association that would cut funding for the paper.

Tagged Carrollton, Georgia, University of West Georgia

Judge grants qualified immunity to principal in First Amendment 'douchebag' case

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January 16, 2009December 4, 2018 Liz White

A U.S. District Court judge ruled Thursday that a student had not clearly established her First Amendment right to criticize her principal in an off-campus blog that used coarse language, denying the student a trial on her claim.

Tagged Burlington, Conn., Connecticut, CT, Lewis S. Mills High School

N.D. attorney general finds university broke open records law

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January 6, 2009September 5, 2018 Liz White

A university cannot hide behind federal privacy laws to refuse to honor an open-records request for information about the disciplinary sanctions levied for violations of student conduct codes, North Dakota's Attorney General has ruled.

Tagged FERPA, Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota

Students appeal to school board after superintendent asks to prior review publication

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December 18, 2008December 4, 2018 Liz White

Students at Faribault High School in Faribault, Minn., are appealing to their school board after the superintendent shut down the student newspaper Monday.

Tagged Echo, Faribault High School, Minnesota

Law professor drops defamation suit against student group after school clears his name

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December 11, 2008December 4, 2018 Liz White

ARKANSAS -- Richard Peltz, a law professor at the University ofArkansas at Little Rock, has dropped a defamation lawsuit against two formerstudents and a law group after a school investigation determined that thecharges of racism against him were unfounded.

Tagged Arkansas, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Former staff starts independent newspaper after college postpones printing campus paper 'indefinitely'

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August 18, 2008December 4, 2018 Liz White

As students returned to classes Monday at MaconState College, they found the bins of their student newspaper, TheMatrix, empty, but with former editors nearby distributing copies of anindependent paper, The Student Free Press.

Tagged Georgia, Macon State College, The Matrix, The Student Free Press

Amendments to Clery Act require universities to immediately warn campus of emergencies

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August 15, 2008December 4, 2018 Liz White

President Bush signed a higher educationlaw Thursday making several amendments to the Clery Act that will requireuniversities to "immediately notify" students, faculty and staff aboutemergencies on campus.

Tagged Washington D.C.

Middle schooler asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear First Amendment case

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August 11, 2008December 4, 2018 Liz White

Attorneys for a Saginaw, Mich. fifth-grader who was ordered to refrain from distributing religious messages at school filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday with hopes the court will reexamine a 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that said his middle school principal did not violate his First Amendment rights.

Tagged Michigan

Appellate court rules Temple University's former speech code unconstitutional

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August 7, 2008December 4, 2018 Liz White

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision Monday by a federal district court that Temple University's formeranti-harassment code was unconstitutional.

Tagged Pennsylvania, Temple University

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