Administrators at Chaffey College are still insisting the school’s literary magazine staff affix a warning label to it’s latest issue, but have allowed staff to use their own wording, a compromise of sorts that has left staff members frustrated.
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Calif. state legislature passes bill including charter schools in student free expression law
The bill that would extend student freeexpression rights to California charter school students awaits thegovernor's signature after passing the State Assembly on Monday.
Court restores Va. ban on alcohol ads in college newspapers
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 this month that the Virginia regulation that prohibits college publications from printing alcohol advertisements does not violate the students' First Amendment rights.
Conflicting online speech rulings vacated, will be heard by full Third Circuit
The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania ordered April 9 that the seemingly conflicting rulings in two student online speech cases be vacated and heard by the full court in June.
Cases: Layshock v.
Foundations pushed to open
It's a question both sides think they know the answer to and one both sides hope the state's supreme court will take up soon: Are the names of individual donors to public university foundations public under the state open records law?
Articles about homosexuality spark censorship of newspaper
East Bakersfield Principal John Gibson viewed the spread intended to run in the April issue of the Kernal the night before it was to sent to the printer. The next day the student editors were called in to speak with school officials, who convinced them to run the spread without revealing the identities of the gay and transgendered students who had been interviewed for the piece. Later that night Gibson ordered the entire piece removed out of what he described as a concern for the safety of the students in the article, Kernal adviser Randy Hamm said.
Former editor's appeal to school goes unanswered
Administrators fired Ann Long from her position as editor of the Oracle because she did not receive parental consent before talking to students about their sexuality for an article that ran in December 2004.
School official cancels class that publishes student newspaper
When the principal at Pebblebrook High School cancelled the school's journalism class in May, it seemed likely that Brookspeak, the student newspaper produced by the class, would die with it.
Yearbook's Spanish title prompts principal to institute prior review
The book, featuring the question in Spanish (''Quienes somos en verdad?'') on the front cover and in English on the back cover -- a reflection of the school's nearly 90 percent Hispanic majority -- reached the school's students on May 5 with little consequence.
Advisers lose fights to reclaim jobs
A federal district court has ruled that the removal of Ron Johnson, former adviser of the student newspaper the Collegian at Kansas State University, was not a violation of the student editors' First Amendment rights because he was removed due to the 'overall quality' of the paper and not specific stories.