The study, put out by the First Amendment Center in September, looks at the balance between school safety and protecting students' First Amendment rights.
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Students face challenges covering homosexuality
Many student newspaper staffs have faced situations like this in attempting to publish stories on homosexuality. But there seems to be just as many success stories where supportive advisers and administrators have said this is an issue that students need to be able to cover.
Gender, geography affect views on expression
Urban students are more likely to favor greater means of expression ' such as airing an unpopular opinion or reciting profanity-laced lyrics ' while suburban students are more likely to believe the government should have the right to censor the press.
Texas students, adviser receive Courage in Student Journalism Awards
The Courage in Student Journalism Awards are presented each year to student journalists and to a school administrator or media adviser who have demonstrated exceptional determination and support for student press freedom, despite resistance or difficult circumstances.
Hosty v. Carter Information Page
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision on June 20, 2005, said the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood decision limiting high school student free expression rights could extend to college and university campuses.
Federal appeals court upholds right to conduct anonymous surveys in schools
Administrators at a New Jersey high school did
not violate student privacy rights by administering an anonymous survey asking
questions on sensitive topics, according to a federal appeals
court.
The 3rd U.S.
Harvard campus police reports not subject to open records law, court rules
The state Supreme Judicial Court ruled Jan. 13 that Harvard University's campus police incident records are not subject to the state open records law.
Indiana court lets student’s libel, privacy claims move forward; school district appeals decision
Attorneys for a school district are
appealing a state trial court's refusal to dismiss claims by a former high
school student over statements printed about her in the school's student
newspaper.
Heide Peek, a 2002 graduate of Whiteland Community High
School in Whiteland, Ind., sued the Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation
in 2003, claiming an article in the senior edition of the student newspaper
contained defamatory comments about her.
New report finds many colleges out of compliance with federal campus reporting laws
Just 37 percent of U.S. colleges are in full compliance with
federal laws about reporting campus crime statistics, according to a new report
released by the National Institute of Justice.
Researchers for the
report, released in December, determined that while most schools comply with the
requirement to report crime statistics, less than half of colleges offer
opportunities to anonymously report crimes or adequately provide students with
information on how to file criminal charges.
Supreme Court decision on whether to hear ‘college Hazelwood case’ expected in February
America's college student
media should know in a few weeks whether the U.S. Supreme Court will consider
overturning a federal appeals court decision that applied a high school
censorship standard to college and university student expression.
The
case, Hosty v.