Despite a University of Kentucky distribution ban,the independent student newspaper will continue to hand out papers at thisweekend's homecoming football game.
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Board expresses displeasure at sex-themed content in Murray State News
The Board of Regents atMurray State University voted Friday to express its dissatisfaction with thestudent newspaper's recent publication of a "Special SEXtion."
Ky. attorney general orders university to release correspondence records
Northern KentuckyUniversity's student newspaper, The Northerner, is in a 30-daywaiting period to find out whether the school will respond to an open recordsrequest, as ordered by the Kentucky Attorney General, or appeal to the CampbellCounty Circuit Court.
Ky. student sues anonymous poster over allegedly defamatory comments on paper's Web site
A Kentucky college student is suing an unknown person who posted comments about her on a local newspaper's Web site and asking the paper to reveal the poster's identity.
Student, representative propose student free press legislation in Ky.
With the help of his state representative, acollege sophomore in Kentucky has initiated a bill in the Commonwealth's Houseof Representatives that seeks to combat post-Hazelwood student pressrights restrictions.
Northern Kentucky student creates petition to change orientation speech policy
A Northern Kentucky University student plansto petition NKU administrators to apologize and revise a policy restricting thedistribution of certain materials during student orientation after the studenthanded out condoms as a form of protest and landed in jail.
Kentucky attorney general sides with Eastern Kentucky student newspaper in request to open campus police records
Editors of the Eastern Progress, studentnewspaper for Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, scored a victory for openrecords in an appeal to the Kentucky attorney general that challenged theuniversity's redaction of information from campus police reports.
Appeals panel reverses itself, dismisses Ky. student's free-speech lawsuit
Six months after ruling a high schoolstudent could continue a lawsuit challenging his district's formeranti-discrimination policy, a federal appellate court panel reversed itself Wednesday anddecided his case should be dismissed.
Free-speech suit continues over policies enacted as settlement in prior case
A school district might have "chilled" student speech in its efforts to comply with a prior settlement reached with theACLU by requiring students to participate in anti-harassment training andimplementing a policy that forbade language that insults or stigmatizes anindividual's sexual orientation, a federal appeals court ruled Oct.26.
Kentucky newspapers stolen after article connected recent deaths to alcohol
Staff members say they were not surprised when more than 4,500 copies of the Kentucky Kernel, the University of Kentucky’s student newspaper, came up missing from news stands Nov. 13.