NORTH CAROLINA ' The National Collegiate Athletic Association has reversed a long-standing policy that had ignored the right of collegiate newspapers to interview high school student-athlete recruits.
The policy was changed in September after the NCAA initially said the University of North Carolina at Charlotte violated a bylaw when its student-run Web site, NinerOnline, published several articles about sports recruits.
CALIFORNIA ' A three-judge federal appellate court panel has ruled that colleges can limit student speech in academic work after a graduate student attempted to criticize administrators in his master's thesis.
Christopher Brown sued the University of California at Santa Barbara claiming that his First Amendment rights were violated when university officials withheld his master's degree.
College students across the nation are helping strike down policies that restrict speech and expression on school property by mounting court battles and staging campus protests.
The face of collegiate free speech could change in 2003.
\n\nThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago will determine if the free expression rights of college students are in fact greater than those of students in high school.
The devastating effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood decision restricting the First Amendment rights of high school journalists just keep coming.
A former high school student newspaper editor from Arkansas and a high school principal from Missouri received the fifth annual Courage in Student Journalism Awards presented by the Newseum, the Student Press Law Center and the National Scholastic Press Association.
\n\nThe awards were presented to Holly Ballard, formerly senior editor of the Bryant High School student newspaper in Alexander, Ark., and Julie Leeth, principal of Hillcrest High School in Springfield, Mo., at the National Scholastic Press Association and Journalism Education Association Fall Convention in Dallas on Nov.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) is
seeking applicants for its third annual High School Journalism Institute.
Approximately 200 journalism advisers will be selected to attend a
two-week, for-credit journalism training program that will take place at six
universities during the summer of 2003.
A conservative magazine at Wabash
College lost its funding and its standing as a recognized student organization
after the student senate said its content was "ungentlemanly." Now, the senate
has agreed to re-instate the magazine's funding, which was sought by student
editors and First Amendment advocates.
The Wabash Commentary was
still placed on probation during the Dec.
A student who sued his school
district after he was scolded for writing a letter to the editor of the local
paper has agreed to an out-of-court settlement.
An agreement was reached
after Crosbyton High School student Justin Latimer, his parents, school
officials and their lawyers met this month.
A student talk show on the University of\nConnecticut