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The Student Press Law Center issued an alarm to college student journalists, press groups and free expression advocates following a Nov. 14 ruling by a Kentucky federal court that threatens to strip the college media of much of its First Amendment protection.

If allowed to stand, a Nov. 14 decision by a Kentucky federal district court would mark the first time the Hazelwood standard has been used to justify the censorship of a college publication.

Illinois high school student journalists have suffered another setback in their 8-year battle to secure stronger press freedoms. The Senate vote for a state Student Publications Act, which would give greater freedom of expression to high school journalists, was canceled on Nov. 14 following protests.

The Illinois House of Representatives voted 98-19 to override the Governor's veto of the Student Publications Act on Oct. 29 which would give high school journalists greater press freedoms.

Staffers at the University of California at Berkeley's student newspaper are starting to get a little tired of newspaper thieves' mischief. For the seventh time in one year, The Daily Californian was ripped off.

The United States Department of Education has declared Miami University of Ohio in violation of the Campus Security Act of 1990 for inaccurately disclosed crime statistics, inconsistent data and misreported statistics from branch campuses.

Miami University of Ohio has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that the university must turn over campus disciplinary records to the student newspaper.

After controversy rocked the Montgomery County School Board during the spring semester, students and administrators have made progress towards a new set of guidelines for the county cable system's education channel.

The appeal continues in the case of a University of South Florida student who showed an lesbian instructional sex video in public.