CALIFORNIA -- A newspaper reported last week that an attorney for a girl whose seminude photos were published in a high school literary magazine approached the school district with a settlement offer.
But the offer reported by the North County Times, which asked for a public apology and $18,000 in attorney’s fees, was never officially made to the school district, said Peggy Lynch, superintendent for the San Dieguito Union High School District.
GEORGIA -- When 15-year-old Juan Guzman posted that he would like to kill his French teacher on his personal Web log, it was just a figure of speech, he said.
But administrators at his Athens high school were not willing to take any chances. On Wednesday, Guzman was informed he is being transferred from Cedar Shoals High School to the district's alternative school, a school official said.
Guzman was suspended last week after administrators became aware of a ''very threatening'' blog entry he posted about his teacher on the community journal Web site xanga.com.
INDIANA -- The staff and adviser of a student newspaper in Noblesville are hoping that controversy over an article on oral sex will mean fewer restrictions on what they can print in the future.
CALIFORNIA -- Editors at a conservative student newspaper at Stanford University are fighting a ban on distributing publications door to door on campus, saying the policy is an act of censorship.
On Jan.
FLORIDA -- After a 14-hour budget meeting Saturday, student newspaper editor Jake Smith was exhausted, convinced the student senate would zero fund the newspaper and fire the entire staff.
Instead, the student government of Florida Atlantic University cut the paper’s budget by $15,000 and cut $48,000 from the budget of the university’s student-run television station -- and this is not the first time student government has intervened in the newspaper’s production.
At the budget meeting, the student government also passed a rule that mandated the newspaper, the University Press, to include coverage from all of the university’s seven campuses in each issue, published weekly.
CALIFORNIA -- About 800 copies of a student magazine flew off the racks last week at Fullerton College causing magazine staffers to speculate they were stolen.
Student
editors at three student newspapers said college journalists need to start
discussing the effects of Hosty v.
Carter now that the Supreme Court has decided not to hear the
case.
UTAH -- Although a fraternity at the University of Utah has agreed to attend a seminar on press censorship after more than 8,500 copies of the student newspaper went missing, its president says his fraternity is not responsible for the theft.
A security camera recorded one student taking stacks of The Daily Utah Chronicle on Nov.
CALIFORNIA -- When California students protested military recruiters last year, they never expected to end up on a terrorist watch list.
Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court declined
to hear Hosty v. Carter, the Student
Press Law Center learned the university where the case began is facing a lawsuit
from another set of student journalists.
Two former student
editors of the Phoenix, Governors State University