Introduction
There are two sides to a university campus. There are the colorful brochures handed out by the public relations office, and even the daily facade of a safe environment.
Tag: Fall 1999
Schools react to Columbine
\nStudents everywhere are feeling the ramifications of the April\nshooting at Columbine High School that left 14 students and one\nteacher dead.
Art colleges’ settlement will stay sealed
\nGEORGIA - The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in March that the\npublic will not have access to a confidential 1996 settlement\nagreement between the Savannah College of Art and Design and the\nSchool of Visual Arts.
Professor loses libel suit against student
\nMASSACHUSETTS - A Wellesley College professor has filed\na motion for appeal after a Massachusetts trial court judge ruled\nin December that a student did not libel him in a 1993 magazine\narticle.
High school censorship increases, 1998 SPLC legal requests indicate
VIRGINIA - Censorship calls to the Student Press Law Center from public high school journalists rose for the fourth straight year. According to the center, 321 high school student journalists or their advisers contacted it in 1997 for legal help concerning a censorship matter.
Students fight censorship with cash
After their principal censored two stories in the literary magazine, students at Crescent Valley High School in Corvallis raised enough money to publish it on their own.
Gathering news, legally
Ole Miss newspaper avoids libel suit
\nMISSISSIPPI - The staff of the Daily Mississippian\nstudent newspaper is sleeping a little easier after fending off\na libel suit.
Corrections
\nA story on page 22 of the Spring 1999 issue of the Report\nincorrectly reported that the Arkansas House of Representatives\npassed a bill that would have guaranteed freedom of expression\nrights to public college students.
Editor loses fight to publish ad
NORTH CAROLINA - The editor of a student newspaper in\nRaleigh lost his fight to publish advertisements from a gay and\nlesbian support group and a church-sponsored youth group in April\nafter the Wake County Board of Education upheld his principal's\ndecision to censor the ads.
Matt Williams, a senior at Enloe High School and editor of\nthe Eagle's Eye, said he fought the principal's decision\nbecause other schools in the area allowed churches to advertise\nin their newspapers.
"The decision to fight came because I saw inconsistencies\nin what the school board said could be allowed and couldn't be\nallowed," Williams said.
He added that his principal, Lloyd Gardner, had previously\nallowed the school newspaper to publish the ad from the church-sponsored\nyouth group.
Williams said it was not until he wanted to run the ad from\nthe N.C.