Charges were dropped against a Sacramento City College student photographer who was arrested while covering an anti-war protest in San Francisco.
Tag: Fall 2003
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.
Surveying the Law
Web-savvy stations save their streams
After more than a year and a half of playing the waiting game, the student radio station at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg resumed streaming music online.