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WISCONSIN ? Members of six student organizations at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh have found a new use for their student-run newspaper.These students are now using the weekly newspaper for building homecoming parade floats.More than 3,000 copies of two separate editions of The Advance-Titan were stolen from high-traffic distribution sites on campus during a two-week period earlier this month.Editor in chief William Schwulst said during the past two years fraternities, sororities and other campus groups have made a habit of helping themselves to nearly half of the paper's 8,000-circulation distribution."Homecoming comes up and organizations are building floats," Schwulst said.

MICHIGAN ? Administrators at Washtenaw Community College forced the campus newspaper to pull an editorial endorsement for three board of trustees candidates in the Nov.

OHIO ? The Cleveland Municipal School District decided to wait until after Election Day to show a student film encouraging classmates to vote.According to Meryl Johnson, director of community relations for the Cleveland Teachers Union, district officials feared releasing the film before yesterday?s election would appear to be an appeal for student support of an education issue on the ballot. Yesterday?s vote on Issue 4 determined whether the city?s mayor was to remain in control of the school district.

WISCONSIN ? A student newspaper columnist stirred racial tension at University of Wisconsin-Waukesha after he blamed African-American lifestyles for the fatal mob beating of a Milwaukee black man.Student organizations called the columnist racist and asked for the university to cut funding for the student newspaper, The Observer.In his Oct.

ILLINOIS ? Oral arguments in the widely anticipated college free-press case, Hosty v.

The Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP) invites applications for a one-year, full-time research fellowship in the area of artistic and intellectual freedom.

A conservative student magazine at Wabash College lost its funding and its standing as a recognized student organization, leaving editors wondering how they will continue to publish.

During a Nov.

Administrators at Washtenaw Community College forced the campus newspaper to pull an editorial endorsement for three board of trustees candidates in the Nov.

A 126-year-old statute that made libel a criminal act was unanimously ruled overly broad and unconstitutional Nov.

The Keystone Oaks School District has agreed to a partial settlement\nwith a student punished for criticizing a teacher online, although a court will\nstill have to determine whether the district