An issue of the Deltona High School student newspaper was delayed by an administrator in October, leaving student journalists to learn about prior review the hard way.
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Sorority member admits to stealing Stetson newspapers
A member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at Stetson University has apologized to the student newspaper staff for stealing approximately 700 copies of the Stetson Reporter’s Oct. 5 issue.
Sorority suspected in Stetson newspaper theft
Staff members of The Reporter, Stetson University’s student newspaper, are waiting to see if administrators will take further judicial actions after members of a campus sorority allegedly stole about 700 copies of the paper.
Florida Atlantic president sends letter to student government following action against radio station
Florida Atlantic University President Frank Brogan sent a scathing letter to student leaders last week after the Student Government Association at the Boca Raton campus attempted to shut down OWL Radio, the student-run station.
Florida high school newspapers passed out with a hole
A high school principal, objecting to a story about an "achievement gap" in state test scores between white and minority students at his school, censored the article this month by literally having it cut out of the student-produced paper.
College paper pulled from stands for faulty headline
Editors of the Gargoyle, Flagler College’s student newspaper, are calling university President William Abare’s actions inappropriate after he pulled copies of the paper from racks last week.
Student government's funding cuts jeopardize paper's future
AFlorida university is slicing its campus newspaper's budget almost in halffor the upcoming year, and a student editor said he considers the cuts paybackfor a longstanding rift between the paper and the school's studentgovernment.
Censuring the censors: high school officials receive Muzzle Awards
High school
administrators in Tennessee, Florida and California earned a place on the same
blacklist as President Bush, the Department of Justice and the Federal
Communications Commission chairman.
What do school administrators at
Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee, Wellington High School in Florida and Troy
High School in California have in common with heavy-hitters like top U.S.
officials?
All are governmental bodies that stomped on free speech
rights in a major way during 2005, according to the Thomas Jefferson Center for
the Protection of Free Expression.
Being on the list comes with a
dubious award called the
Officials replace student newspaper
Two months after Manatee Community College officially dissolved the student newspaper the Lance, the paper’s editor in chief, Jim Malec, says he will not let the publication die.
Fla. district pays $20,000 to settle adviser's lawsuit
In May, the Palm Beach County School District agreed to pay Toby Eichas $20,000 in a settlement, but the district did not admit any guilt in the conflict. The dispute began during the 1998-1999 school year when the student newspaper published columns that school officials called insensitive.