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Tag: Georgia

Ga. college students ordered to apologize, reimburse for stolen newspapers

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March 23, 2012September 5, 2018 Nick Glunt

Twostudents at Georgia College and State University were sanctioned March 15 afterdumping about 460 copies of the student newspaper in February.

Tagged Georgia, Georgia College and State University, The Colonnade

Georgia State papers disappear after coverage of hazing allegations

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March 21, 2012September 5, 2018 Nick Glunt

Closeto 250 copies of a student newspaper at Georgia State University were dumpedlast week after the paper published a series of stories regarding allegedsorority hazing.

Tagged Georgia, Georgia State University, The Signal

Ga. administrators confiscate newspapers, cite FERPA

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February 8, 2011September 5, 2018 Aly Brumback

A high school newspaper is now under prior reviewafter its January issue was confiscated by administrators last week.

Tagged Fulton County Schools, Georgia, messenger

Photos of shirtless males cut from yearbooks on principal's orders

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November 4, 2009September 5, 2018 Joanna Brenner

The principal of Chattooga High School in Summervilleordered four consecutive pages be cut out of the 2009 edition of the yearbooklast week because of photographs of shirtless males playing basketball that hedeemed inappropriate.

Tagged Chattooga High School, Georgia, summerville, yearbook

West Georgia administration asks budget committee to reconsider proposed cut to newspaper

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June 5, 2009September 5, 2018 Catherine MacDonald

Administration at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton have asked that the Student Activity Fee Budget Allocation Committee reconvene this summer to allow the West Georgian to represent its request for more funds after an initial proposal to cut the paper's budget.

Tagged "West Georgian", Carrollton, Georgia, University of West Georgia

West Georgia SGA passes bill to freeze money to student newspaper after publishing anti-Greek column

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May 8, 2009December 4, 2018 Liz White

The editor-in-chief of the student newspaper and a group of students at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton are protesting a series of proposals by the Student Government Association that would cut funding for the paper.

Tagged Carrollton, Georgia, University of West Georgia

Armstrong Atlantic, <i>Inkwell</i> settle lawsuit over funding cut

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November 20, 2008September 5, 2018 Erica Walters

The Inkwell, the student newspaper atArmstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., will not have to operateon a budget abridged by the Student Government Association after its lawsuitalleging First Amendment retaliation was settled out of court.

Tagged Armstrong Atlantic State University, Georgia, inkwell

Former staff starts independent newspaper after college postpones printing campus paper 'indefinitely'

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August 18, 2008December 4, 2018 Liz White

As students returned to classes Monday at MaconState College, they found the bins of their student newspaper, TheMatrix, empty, but with former editors nearby distributing copies of anindependent paper, The Student Free Press.

Tagged Georgia, Macon State College, The Matrix, The Student Free Press

Editors sue Ga. college over cuts to student paper's budget

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July 1, 2008December 4, 2018 Rob Arcamona

Student editors at Armstrong Atlantic StateUniversity's student newspaper, The Inkwell, filed a lawsuit Mondayagainst the university, claiming the school stifled their right to free speechwhen the paper's budget was slashed in March.

Tagged Armstrong Atlantic State University, Georgia, The Inkwell

Conflicts with media coordinator lead editors at Macon State to resign

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May 12, 2008September 5, 2018 Michael Beder

After a year of personality conflicts andbudget disputes with a newly hired student media coordinator, the editors ofMacon State College's weekly student newspaper decided not to reapply for theirpositions next year.

Tagged Georgia, Macon State College, The Matrix

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