FLORIDA — A former Florida State University student last week settled a privacy lawsuit against the producers of the voyeuristic video series, "Girls Gone Wild."
Becky Lynn Gritzke, a one-time swimsuit calendar model, claimed in her lawsuit that the producers of "Girls Gone Wild" violated her privacy rights by videotaping her as she flashed her breasts on Bourbon Street during a 2000 Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans.
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CALIFORNIA — School officials at the University of California at San Diego are backing off from their order that a student organization's Web site hosted on the school's server cannot link to an alleged terrorist group's Web site.
PENNSYLVANIA — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that Nitschmann Middle School administrators did not violate a student's First Amendment rights in expelling him for a disruptive Web site he created on his computer at home.
The majority ruling against the student, Justin Swidler, parallels an opinion handed down the same day, Sept.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A United Press International intern, who was caught up in the mass arrests of International Monetary Fund protesters last weekend, has refuted police claims that detained professional media members were not given preferential treatment to avoid charges filed against their collegiate press counterparts.
UPI's Stefany Moore, a Boston University senior, said she and two washingtonpost.com reporters were allowed off a bus where police were holding arrested protesters after their respective editors called into Metropolitan Police Department headquarters.
CALIFORNIA — A high school newspaper that took heat for a column it printed last school year opposing illegal immigration has been cancelled because not enough students signed up for the class.
NORTH CAROLINA — The National Collegiate Athletic Association has reversed a long-standing policy that had ignored the right of collegiate newspapers to interview high school student-athlete recruits.
The policy was changed late last month after the NCAA deemed the University of North Carolina at Charlotte violated a regulation when its student-run Web site, NinerOnline, published several articles about sport recruits.
The NCAA forbids university personnel including coaching and public relations staff and current or future athletes to discuss or comment about recruiting prospects, said NCAA spokesman Wally Renfro.
"We had viewed student newspapers as part of the university, and the university can't comment on these things," said Renfro.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This past weekend's International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings held unintended consequences for student journalists who covered the protests.
A former high school newspaper editor in Arkansas and a high school principal in Missouri will receive the fifth annual Courage in Student Journalism Awards, presented by the Newseum, the Student Press Law Center and the National Scholastic Press Association.
A poster that detailed the rape case of a College of William and
Mary student was twice taken down from campus grounds this
month.
Samantha Collins said she was raped by a fellow William and Mary
student last October while attending a party at a fraternity house.
Members of six student organizations at the University of
Wisconsin at Oshkosh have found a new use for their student-run newspaper.
These students are now using the weekly newspaper for building
homecoming parade floats.
More than 3,000 copies of two separate editions
of The Advance-Titan were stolen from high-traffic distribution sites on
campus during a two-week period earlier this month.
Editor in chief
William Schwulst said during the past two years fraternities, sororities and
other campus groups have made a habit of helping themselves to nearly half of
the paper's 8,000-circulation distribution.
"Homecoming comes up and
organizations are building floats," Schwulst said.