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VIRGINIA -- A newspaper editor used an early-morning stakeout to catch a university employee last week in the act of tearing down fliers posted by newspaper staff that named an alleged rape victim.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court announced this morning that it will not hear a case that questioned the authority of administrators at an Illinois university to censor a student newspaper that published articles critical of the school.

OHIO -- Editors at a student newspaper plan to file a second Freedom of Information request after their first request yielded nearly 4,000 pages of information last week in a format they say “not everyone can access.” The editors said they are looking for a searchable database, but university officials say they handed over everything they had.

A reporter at The Lantern, the daily student newspaper at Ohio State University, filed the first records request in early February.

MISSOURI -- Student newspaper editor Ben Digman was thrilled to discover the zipper of his pants was inscribed with “Talon,” the name of his student publication.

“We thought, ‘That’s great,’” he said.

WASHINGTON -- Administrators ordered a recall of a high school newspaper’s special edition devoted to embarrassing moments because of illustrations they deemed “inappropriate” for high school students.

The Peninsula Outlook, Peninsula High School’s student newspaper, ran an illustration of a tampon being passed under a bathroom stall and a photo of a boy with his pants zipper down in last week’s special issue.

Administrators deemed certain images in the Outlook's Feb.

ILLINOIS-- Two editors at The Daily Illini were suspended Monday night, five days after they decided to publish the controversial Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad.

Mary Cory, the newspaper’s publisher, suspended Editor in Chief Acton Gorton and opinion editor Chuck Prochaska because the two did not consult with the entire editorial board and other editors before publishing the cartoons, said one of the paper's interim editors in chief, Jason Koch.

NEW YORK -- In what appears to be an ongoing battle for free expression at Syracuse University, four first-year students were disciplined last semester and threatened with expulsion after creating a Facebook.com group that criticized their writing instructor.

CALIFORNIA -- A protest of military recruiters held by a student group in California is no longer on a terrorist watch list thanks to a university chancellor.

College newspapers across the country are chiming in on the recent controversy surrounding the Danish cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad.