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A Mesa junior high school principal confiscated the student newspaper last month because of an editorial critical of the school's dress code enforcement, student journalists said.

During the week of Jan.

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.

A state court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a former Salem State College professor who claimed the editor of the school's student newspaper libeled him.

Essex County Superior Court Justice Nancy Staffier ruled on Nov.

Long Island University officials punished the editor and adviser of the school's student newspaper 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.

Officials at a Virginia Beach high school confiscated the latest edition of the student newspaper because they feared a "backlash" from an editorial about a teacher accused of having sex with a student, student journalists said.

School officials, however, said the Towne Crier was seized because the newspaper's adviser failed to follow the school's prior review policy.

Students are appealing the school's decision to confiscate the paper.

University of Central Florida officials punished one of the school's homecoming queen nominees after she told other students to throw away stacks of the student newspaper, which had reported that she had a criminal record.

The Orlando university's punishment required Katie Noland to perform 16 hours of community service and pay the newspaper $1,000, said Brian Linden, co-publisher of The Future.

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.

MISSISSIPPI -- A high school student says school administrators punished her because she wrote in her off-campus weblog that a teacher was "perverted."St.

TENNESSEE -- Two state legislators have reintroduced a bill requiring colleges and universities to release certain student disciplinary records.Senate Bill 2098 was brought before the Senate Education Committee on Jan.

ILLINOIS -- School administrators suspended a high school broadcaster from a school news show for one month because he signed off by saying "God bless." Dupo High School senior James Lord is scheduled to be off the air until Feb.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court has left untouched a lower court's ruling protecting a community member's right to distribute leaflets on school grounds for a religious camp when it declined on Jan.