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A school superintendent held up distribution of a South Carolina middle school newspaper, citing a district policy that prohibits printing commercial, political or religious advertisements in school newspapers.

The first issue of The Chief?s Chronicle, the new student newspaper at Gaffney Middle School, contained three political advertisements purchased by candidates in the upcoming Cherokee County school board elections.

Only about one-third of American colleges and universities are fully complying with federal law in reporting sexual assaults, according to a study sponsored by the U.S.

Four student journalists and three law students from George Washington University, who were arrested during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank protests in Washington, D.C., last month, filed a federal lawsuit October 15 claiming their constitutional rights had been violated by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S.

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 court ruled in J.S.

Oral arguments have been set before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the Governors State University censorship case.

ARKANSAS — A Northwood Junior High student's free expression rights were not violated when he was expelled from school for a threatening letter he wrote at home, according to a 6-4 decision by the U.S.

FLORIDA — High school editor Brian Leon turned to the Internet when his principal would not let him put a story about a teacher's arrest record in the student paper.

GEORGIA — The new DeKalb County School System Superintendent might have attempted to hush criticism by confiscating additional copies of a high school newspaper that included disparaging remarks on his record.

CALIFORNIA — Starting in 2004, colleges and universities in the Golden State will more likely be caught if they underreport campus crime statistics.

NEW JERSEY — Rutgers University was ordered to pay an additional $10,000 in legal fees to the American Civil Liberties Union Sept.