Eight years after the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier -- giving high school administrators greater authority to censor school sponsored student publications -- one of the largest public university systems in the country is pressing to extend the ruling to college and university student media.
Tag: Fall 1996
House discusses pros, cons of open campus crime logs
A House of Representatives subcommittee heard over two hours of "eye-opening" and sometimes emotional testimony about campus crime in early June from a series of eight panelists, including school administrators, victims of campus crime, a professional journalist and a Department of Education official.
Controversial 'alternative lifestyle instruction' policy repealed
Parents, teachers and gay and lesbian rights advocates have declared victory in the community of Merrimack, after a new school board repealed a controversial "alternative lifestyle instruction" policy.
Judge allows students' free speech case to continue after yearbook confiscation
A federal district court judge partially upheld and partially dismissed two Kentucky State University students' claims that school administrators had unlawfully kept their yearbooks from them.
Editors lose fight for crime info
The Community College of Philadelphia's student newspaper staff lost their long-running fight for access to campus crime records when the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled in April that the college is not a state agency.
Oregon journalists win limited victory
The Oregon Court of Appeals once again skirted the issue of state free press rights for student journalists in a decision in a long-running high school censorship case.
Disappearing Acts: Student newspapers struggle against theft, 'recycling'
This spring, four more university newspaper staffs became the victims of an increasingly popular form of censorship on college campuses: newspaper theft. These four incidents bring the total number of thefts reported to the Student Press Law Center for the 1995-96 school year to 26.
Va. student loses suit to limit campus courts
A student whose case has potentially serious implications for the opening of campus court proceedings suffered a defeat in state court in May, when a district court judge ruled against her in a sexual discrimination suit against her former school.
Satire earns suspensions for Wisc. high school journalists
No one was laughing about an April Fool's Day column at Logan High School that was so offensive to some students it was confiscated by the principal less than an hour after being printed.
Prosecutors ponder the value of free papers after thefts
For free newspapers that face newspaper theft, finding suspects is only half the battle. As many papers have discovered, the real struggle begins in convincing university disciplinary boards and local police to prosecute the thieves.