After three weeks of unanswered phone calls from city employees, the mayor ofCarbondale apologized to student journalists yesterday for a communicationbreakdown between city staff and a college newspaper.
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Students win fight to air banned broadcasts
The first time this year that administrators censored Columbia HighSchool's student-produced cable channel, they nixed public serviceannouncements in February that portrayed the school as dilapidated anddirty.
Georgia Legislature passes bill increasing access to campus police records
Thepublic will have unprecedented access to campus police records at privateuniversities in Georgia thanks to legislation passed Thursday -- only the second of its kind in the nation.
Student admits to taking 800 copies of student paper
A student at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University admitted to stealing more than 800 copies of the studentnewspaper last month containing an article about drug and DUI charges she wasfacing.
Student sues for right to wear Confederate clothing
A 15-year-old high school student is suing a school district fordisciplining her when she tried to wear clothing that featured the Confederateflag.
Bus assault story gets middle school newspaper yanked
Administrators are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss distributing an issue of a middle school newspaper they pulled last month.
Michigan anti-censorship bill likely to die, student press advocates say
MICHIGAN-- A state bill that would protect high school newspapers fromcensorship is not picking up any steam more than a year after it was proposed.And the Michigan Press Association’s decision not to support the bill isnot helping matters, one student press advocate said.
April Fools’ spoof leads to temporary shutdown of Minnesota student paper’s Web site
The online April Fools
California student’s anti-gay T-shirt not protected by First Amendment, court rules
A
federal appeals court ruled April 20 that a school district was justified in
barring a student from wearing a T-shirt with anti-gay
statements.
School officials can restrict what students wear to avoid
violating the rights or well-being of vulnerable student populations like gay
students, according to the decision handed down by the 9th U.S.
Woman files $800,000 defamation lawsuit against Virginia student newspaper
A student newspaper is being sued for $800,000 on
allegations that the paper published defamatory statements last year about a
rape victim.
The complaint was filed April 11 in a state trial court
against five staff members at The
Remnant, a student newspaper at the College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Va.
The woman suing the newspaper was a victim of rape
while visiting the College of William and Mary, according to the
complaint.
During the months of April and May 2005,
The Remnant published statements about
the woman