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An Indiana circuit court judge\nhas ruled in favor of a high school student who sued his city mayor for access\nto a list of e-mail addresses of subscribers to the city

Two editors at The Daily Illini were suspended Feb. 13, five days after they decided to publish the controversial Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad.

Mary Cory, the newspaper

A former\nstudent newspaper adviser at Vincennes University who was removed from his\nposition by administrators after the paper ran a controversial April\nFools

CALIFORNIA -- Students at the University of California at San Diego voted on Friday to reverse a ban on nudity and graphic sex on their student-run television station. Regardless of the vote, however, administrators have said they are not flipping the station’s switch back on.

University officials have refused to allow the station back on the air since the student government shut it down last November.

INDIANA -- SportShooter.com has been a valuable tool for budding sports photographers to share their work.

MICHIGAN -- School board members and student journalists are debating a high school newspaper's open forum policy after an article about teen sex was published in the local paper.

Student journalists at Lake Shore High School in St.

High school administrators lifted the suspension of a student in mid-February that was imposed after he posted critical comments about the school on MySpace.com.

Administrators at Littleton High School in Littleton, Colo., originally suspended junior Bryan Lopez for 15 days and considered an expulsion, but allowed him to return to school after the American Civil Liberties Union took up his case and threatened to sue the school.

MySpace.com is a social networking site that allows people to post personal profiles, share music and videos and maintain online journals.

Attorneys for the ACLU argued Lopez

ILLINOIS -- The censorship of a gay high school student's column urging others to come out was met with mixed reactions in a ''conservative'' Chicago suburb.

The principal of Wheaton-Warrenville South High School said the content of the column was acceptable but the personal tone of the column raised red flags.

Write an editorial. Hold a public forum. Test the openness of your school's records. These are ways student journalists can take up the banner of access and open records during Sunshine Week 2006, to be held this year March 12-18.

While working journalists deal with open records issues on a daily basis, Sunshine Week is