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Tag: Fall 1998

Miami students rally for free expression

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

The Miami-Dade School District, nationally known for its liberal stance on student free expression, toyed with the idea of changing that policy this spring, but was met with stiff resistance from students and faculty members.

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

Cyberlaw and the Student Media – Part 1

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

Click here for the updated legal guide

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

Protest attracts attention, approval

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

If nothing else, the more than 200 students who rallied for free expression outside the Miami-Dade School Board building June 10 accomplished one thing: making themselves and their message visible to the public.

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

Modern day Prohibition

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

Alcohol has been blamed for causing riots and deaths on campus. The Pennsylvania law banning its promotion is accused of violating the First Amendment.

Tagged alcohol advertisements, Fall 1998, reports

'Timeliness' argument used to censor newspaper

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

A high school principal pulled a story about the formation of a gay and lesbian support group for students on campus from the front page of the school's student newspaper in May, stating the story lacked timeliness.

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

School board refuses to allow pro-abstinence ads

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

Before the spring of 1997, Kim Houlihan said local high school journalists would accept her advertisements for their newspapers. Then, she was notified that the school board had banned them.

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

Students fight administrative decision

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

Even though they have received their high school diplomas and are looking forward to their first year of college this fall, Geoff Ward and Catie Fontaine are not letting the Portsmouth High School administration off the hook just yet.

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

Court refuses to hear advertiser

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

A Lexington community activist, whose political advertisement was refused by a high school's student publications, was denied a hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court in late May.

Tagged advertising, Fall 1998, Massachusetts, reports, Yeo v. Lexington

High school censorship calls soar in '97

Uncategorized
August 1, 1998

Censorship calls to the Student Press Law Center from high school journalists rose by more than a third last year. According to the Center, 304 high school student journalists or their advisers contacted them in 1997 for legal help concerning a censorship matter.

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

Cancelled class jeopardizes newspaper

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August 1, 1998

Kristin Bates was looking forward to enrolling in Brocton High School's only journalism class this year.

Tagged Fall 1998, reports

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