Student journalists at a Belmont, Calif., highschool are scheduled to resume publishing their newspaper by January afterschool administrators shut down the paper following publication of acontroversial column.
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Seattle Central Community College closes newspaper after adviser quits
The City Collegian at Seattle CentralCommunity College in Washington is not publishing, and explanations differ aboutthe reason.
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ACLU, SPLC file lawsuit against Calif. high school over canceled student newspaper
Lawyers for the Student Press Law Center and theAmerican Civil Liberties Union are filing a lawsuit on behalf of students and ateacher at Fallbrook High School in Fallbrook, Calif., claiming that the schoolviolated their First Amendment rights by canceling the journalism class andremoving the adviser.
Tennessee State bans JuicyCampus from campus servers
A popular, controversial Web site has been bannedfrom Tennessee State University servers in Nashville, Tenn., making it the firststate-funded university to impose a ban on the Web site.
Armstrong Atlantic, <i>Inkwell</i> settle lawsuit over funding cut
The Inkwell, the student newspaper atArmstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., will not have to operateon a budget abridged by the Student Government Association after its lawsuitalleging First Amendment retaliation was settled out of court.
Penn State photographer faces misdemeanor charges after covering riot for school paper
A photographer for the Pennsylvania State University Daily Collegian has been ordered to appear in court Dec. 10 to face misdemeanor charges after covering a riot in downtown University Park, Pa.,* in October.
California high school shuts down school newspaper; cause debated
A Belmont, Calif., high school newspaper was shutdown after only one issue containing a student's satirical column.
Quinnipiac withdraws threat against campus chapter of Society of Professional Journalists
After an editorial in the New York Times urged Quinnipiac University, in Hamden, Conn., to withdraw a threat to banthe Society of Professional Journalists' campus chapter, Lynn Bushnell,vice president for public affairs at the university, retracted the threat.
Rockville High School students, principal, adviser win Courage in Journalism Award for gang coverage
Two Rockville, Md. high school student journalists,their adviser and principal have all received the 2008 Courage in StudentJournalism award from the Student Press Law Center and sponsored by the Newseumand the National Scholastic Press Association.