What you need to know before your paper gears up to cover the disciplinary process at your college or university.
Tag: Fall 2003
Filmmaker contests subpoena for tapes
The New Jersey Attorney General issued a subpoena to a recent graduate of Rowan University in July, ordering him to hand over the unedited footage of a documentary he shot about death row inmate Robert O. Marshall.
Legal requests to the SPLC continue to grow
The number of college student media organizations that contacted the Student Press Law Center for help in dealing with censorship in 2002 was almost 50 percent greater than the number that sought such help 2001.
DOE investigates Georgetown's judicial policy
The U.S. Department of Education has initiated an investigation into Georgetown University for its handling of sexual assault cases that go through its judicial process.
Calif. photographer cleared of charges
Charges were dropped against a Sacramento City College student photographer who was arrested while covering an anti-war protest in San Francisco.
Taking the high road
When administrators at Upland High School in California instituted prior review of the annual student-run literary magazine, adviser Alan Berman said he stepped down from his position in protest.
State court sides with FERPA, closes expulsion files
The state’s public high schools may no longer be able to release the names of students who are expelled. In declining to hear a case over the matter in April, the California Supreme Court allowed to stand an appellate court decision that expulsion records can be sealed under a federal privacy law.
Internet filters ruled constitutional
On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government did not violate the First Amendment by requiring public libraries to place Internet filters on their computers in order to receive some federal funding.
Getting down and dirty
Students contend that language that is considered vulgar by adults is socially acceptable among their fellow classmates. They say they should have the right to express it.