Tag: Fall 2002

Many hard-working newspaper staffs across the country see their product disappear, literally, every year.

Wanted: Teacher willing to advise student publications. Must not allow students to write about controversial issues, damage the school's reputation with quality reporting or upset students, parents or the community with the truth.

INDIANA ' In a report that further clarifies a college's obligation to maintain campus police logs under federal law, the U.S.

NEW YORK ' Former student editors of the College Voice at the College of Staten Island are preparing to appeal a federal district judge's March 28 decision in a case where student government officers impounded an issue of the newspaper.

Judge Nina Gershon dismissed the charges that members of the paper had brought against members of the student government.

Environmentalists are no longer the only ones working to ''Save Our Streams.'' College students striving to preserve a man-made medium have adopted the slogan to identify their technological quest.

COLORADO ' Gov. Bill Owens signed a bill June 1 that requires sex offenders in Colorado to register with colleges and universities and calls for a statewide database to track the offenders.

Controversial content has given rise to heated debate, deception and resignations at college newspapers across the country.

CALIFORNIA ' A lawsuit that began with a dispute about copyright infringement has ballooned into a battle that could have a major impact on online publishers.

CALIFORNIA -- State legislators are taking aim at crime reporting by institutions of higher education by considering a bill that would require random audits of campus crime statistics.

MASSACHUSETTS ' Former student journalist Avik Roy can breathe a little easier after a state appeals court dismissed a libel suit against him in May.

Roy, a former reporter at Counterpoint, a publication written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College students, was accused of libel by a Wellesley professor.

Professor Tony Martin sued Roy, claiming Roy libeled him in an 1993 article that said Martin was granted tenure only after he filed a racial discrimination suit against Wellesley.