FLORIDA --In its third attempt to shut down the Web site fullsailsucks.com, Full Sail Inc., a for-profit technical college, has filed a defamation lawsuit against 10 anonymous authors who posted critical comments about the school.Lawyers for Full Sail filed the lawsuit on Feb.
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Students who publish Christian paper sue Okla. university over religious funding policy
OKLAHOMA -- Two University of Oklahoma students who run a Christian campus newspaper have filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming that a school policy barring the use of student fees for ''religious services'' violates their rights to a free press and free speech.The lawsuit was filed in U.S.
Court hears motion to dismiss lawsuit over access to Harvard police records
MASSACHUSETTS -- A state court heard oral arguments Feb. 23 involving Harvard University's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the school's student newspaper seeking access to the Harvard University Police Department's records.The Harvard Crimson filed suit last July after HUPD denied the paper access to police reports.
D.C. university police asked to promise not to disclose campus crime information
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- University of the District of Columbia administrators are asking members of its police force to sign a confidentiality agreement that would prevent officers from disclosing many police records, including crime reports, to the media and the public.
Student newspaper accuses Colo. college board of violating open-meetings law
COLORADO -- The student newspaper at Mesa State College in Grand Junction is considering suing the school's Board of Trustees for violations of the Colorado Open Meetings Law that allegedly occurred during the board's search for a new college president.The Criterion, Mesa State's student newspaper, believes that the board illegally entered into executive session and may have discussed aspects of the search in private which are prohibited by Colorado law.
Fla. university punishes student for her role in campus newspaper theft
FLORIDA -- A homecoming queen nominee at the University of Central Florida was punished by the school for directing other students to throw away stacks of the student newspaper, which reported that she had a criminal record.The Orlando university's punishment required Katie Noland, the UCF student, to perform 16 hours of community service and pay the newspaper $1,000, said Brian Linden, co-publisher of the newspaper.Because a Florida law prohibits universities from releasing information about student disciplinary records, it is unclear whether the school punished others involved in the incident.
N.Y. court orders private university to release some files on genetic testing
NEW YORK -- A state court ruled Feb. 10 that at least one department of Cornell University, a private institution, is subject to the state's Freedom of Information Law and therefore must turn over documents related to the school's decision to expand field testing of genetically modified plants.''[Cornell University officials] were claiming that the entire university was exempt and the courts just don't seem to see it their way so far,'' said Jeremy Alderson, a former radio talk show host who requested the documents in 2000 because he was concerned about the effects the research would have on his community.Tompkins County Supreme Court Judge Robert Mulvey decided that 51 of the 134 documents Cornell handed over in response to Alderson's Freedom of Information request were exempt from disclosure.
Boston College drops requirements from proposed lease with student paper
MASSACHUSETTS -- Boston College officials abandoned their attempt to gain more control of the school's student newspaper by removing requirements in an office lease proposal that would have imposed new advertising and editorial policies on the independent student publication.
Harvard reconsiders approval of student magazine that plans to feature nudity
MASSACHUSETTES -- Only days after gaining the approval of Harvard University, a new student magazine that would feature nude Harvard students is at risk of losing its funding and its status as an officially recognized student publication.The Harvard Committee on College Life approved the H-Bomb, a sex-themed magazine, at a Feb.
N.Y. university punishes editor, adviser for publishing student’s grades
NEW YORK -- The editor and adviser of the student newspaper at Long Island University were punished by the school for publishing an article that disclosed the grades of a former Student Government Association president.Adviser Mike Bush said he was fired from his position this month and Justin Grant was suspended from the newspaper for a month two days after the article appeared in the Jan.