Tag: Fall 1999

\nVIRGINIA - The Newseum, an interactive news museum in Arlington,\npresented its second annual Courage in Student Journalism Awards\nin May to three students and two recent graduates from Florida\nhigh schools.

Brady Ward and Mario Weber, June 1998 graduates of Coral Gables\nSenior High School, and Isabel Eisner, Joey Ruiz and Katie Townsend,\nstudents at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, were recognized\nfor their efforts in convincing the school board in Dade County,\nFla., to retain its exemplary student press guidelines.

\nNEW HAMPSHIRE - A court could find The University of New\nHampshire's student senate in contempt the next time the organization\nchooses to hold an unlawful closed meeting.

But Sean McNamara, editor in chief of the student newspaper,\nThe New Hampshire, hopes that will not be a problem.

A state court approved an agreement between the university's\nsenate and the newspaper, stating that the senate must hold open\nmeetings.

"The senate seems happy about [the decision]," McNamara\nsaid, adding that it is willing to cooperate.

In mid-April, the senate denied the newspaper staff access\nto a meeting concerning university-imposed sanctions on the student\ngovernment.

The sanctions stemmed from a previous open senate meeting in\nJanuary, where two senate members were drinking rum-and-Cokes.

When New Hampshire staffers contested the closed session,\na superior court judge in Strafford County issued a temporary\ninjunction, saying that the senate could not meet in closed session\nuntil the court could schedule a full hearing.

That hearing, however, never took place.