Five missing dollars has brought out a years-old animosity between the State University of New York at Brockport’s student newspaper and its student government, sparking two threats against members of the newspaper staff — including a suggestion that someone break the editor’s fingers.
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Center for Rights petitions Prince George’s County Public Schools over copyright policy
The Center for Rights sent a petition signed by nearly 2,000 to the Prince George’s County Public Schools Board of Education today, asking the district to abandon a draft copyright policy that would have declared students’ and teachers’ works to be property of the district.Evan Greer, Campaign Manager at the Center for Rights, said the group hopes the district will publicly denounce the policy, which district officials last week said was on hold indefinitely. The Center for Rights is an organization that helps raise awareness about individual's rights and how to defend them.“What we don’t want is for people to take their eyes off this issue and for them to push it through and for students and teachers to suffer because people thought it was a done deal,” Greer said.
California principal briefly confiscates, then returns student newspaper
Last week, the Bear Creek High School student newspaper was confiscated by the school’s principal and then returned to the students who created it in a matter of hours.
Maryland advisers react to school district's proposal to control copyright of student work
A Maryland school board has put on hold the consideration of a policy that would strip students and teachers of the copyright ownership of their own works, a policy journalism advisers in the district said they had concerns over.
Wyoming legislation to close college presidential searches waits now for governor’s signature
Legislation that would keep private records relating to college and university presidential searches in Wyoming passed through the Senate yesterday and awaits the governor's signature.Gov.
Former Georgia college president found personally liable for violating student’s due process rights
A former Valdosta State University student whose due process rights were violated in his 2007 expulsion has won $50,000 in compensatory damages, according to a judgment filed Monday. A federal jury ruled in favor of Hayden Barnes on Friday, after several years of legal battle.The university’s former president, Ronald Zaccari, who expelled Barnes, was found “personally liable” for the damages, according to court records.
Adviser at Oral Roberts resigns after student paper publishes false information
Misinformation has cost the student newspaper faculty adviser at Oral Roberts University his job.
Administrators confiscate Calif. literary magazine, attach warning label
Administrators at Chaffey College have confiscated and attached a warning label to copies of a literary magazine produced by students at the school, saying that the magazine’s content is graphic and violent.
Wyoming legislators seek to void ruling making public documents related to presidential search
A state judge’s ruling last week that the University of Wyoming must make public documents containing the identities of the school’s presidential search finalists might become void if the state’s lawmakers approve newly introduced legislation.
Judge says records in Cornell hazing death aren’t protected by FERPA
Earlier this month, a New York state Supreme Court judge said records dealing with a 2011 hazing incident and previous misconduct within Cornell University's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter are not protected by FERPA, the federal student privacy law.