The Virginia Tech administration has rejected recommendations to cut funding or ban student organization advertising in the student newspaper resulting from the paper's refusal to eliminate anonymous comments from its Web site.
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McCormick workshop showcases school leaders who “get it”
We are accustomed to hearing advocates for the First Amendment say things like this: "We are trying to make the students safe for dealing with ideas and controversy.
Former Tattler staff members continue appeals process in censorship case
Almost five years after their original First Amendment lawsuit was filed, former members of the Ithaca High School student newspaper are continuing an appeals process in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
Editor of Ind. student paper asks school officials to return confiscated issues
The editor-in-chief of Lake Central High School's studentnewspaper, The Scout, said he felt intimidated when he addressed theschool board Monday night to ask that school officials be forced to return thepapers they confiscated from newsstands last week.
Wisc. student newspaper awarded settlement in public records lawsuit
The UWM Post at the University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee, was awarded a settlement last week in its public records lawsuitagainst the university.
N.Y. school board reverses newspaper censorship, maintains limited distribution
The editor-in-chief of Long Lake Central High School's student newspaper addressed the district school board Feb. 11 about the reason for censoring several articles in the January edition and the halted distribution of the paper to the community.
Online comments policy prompts Va. Tech to threaten newspaper's funding
The Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech(EMCVT) is fighting back against the university's threat of financialconsequences if the student newspaper does not reconsider allowing anonymouscomments on its Web site.
Defense lawyers’ revised strategy may moot subpoena for Medill student journalists’ records
The showdown over state prosecutors' demands for the news-gathering materials of Northwestern University student journalists may be resolved without confronting the core issue of the students' entitlement to protection under the Illinois reporter shield law.Lawyers for Anthony McKinney, whose conviction in the 1978 shooting death of a Chicago security guard was the subject of the student journalists' investigation, have decided not to rely on three witnesses whose testimony is central to prosecutors' subpoena to the Medill Innocence Project.The Project is part of Northwestern's journalism school, and students enrolled in Prof.
Is discrimination against gays and atheists protected speech?
Sometimes the First Amendment just makes your head hurt.Such is the case, at least for some, in a student speech/discrimination case currently before the Supreme Court that the parties argue pits some of the important guarantees of the First Amendment against the important societal goal of prohibiting discrimination based solely on who a person is or what he believes.In a nutshell, the case involves a Christian student group at Hastings Law School in San Francisco denied “official student group” status because of its refusal to comply with the public law school’s policy that forbids discrimination on various grounds, including religion and sexual orientation.
Student newspaper containing critical article confiscated at Iowa high school
Administrators confiscated the remaining copies of The Growl at Bettendorf High School last Wednesday because of an article that questioned the consistency of penalties given to student athletes who had violated the school's student conduct policies.