Tag: Fall 1997

A guide to avoiding trouble with your school.

Yale University's tabloid magazine Rumpus has become the target of a libel suit, because of a story it ran accusing a local landlord of being a "cokehead" and mismanaging property.

For a few days at least, Cynthia Hanifin seemed to have finally won the long-standing battle with her former high school principal.

The staff of the student newspaper at the University of Great Falls is questioning its publishing freedom after the president of the university stopped an advertisement for a family planning clinic.

Criminal defamation charges brought against two 19 year-olds who created a Web site accusing a high school teacher of having homosexual relations with a minor student have been dropped by Citrus County officials, who have admitted the statute they were prosecuting them under to be unconstitutional.

The University of Maryland at College Park student newspaper, the Diamondback, has found itself in a freedom of information battle with the university over unpaid parking tickets.

The debate continues regarding the validity of ebonics, a term developed to describe a dialect of English used by some African Americans.

Three state courts recently have ruled on separate freedom of information cases. In two of the three decisions, the court ruled in favor of opening records.

The Ames Daily Tribune is appealing a county district court's decision that required the opening of advertising and business records for the Iowa State University student newspaper, the Iowa State Daily.

The Texas attorney general has handed down an informal ruling stating that a tape of a school board meeting that includes a high school student drama production is an educational record.