In what some student free-expression advocates say is an alarming trend, students at both public and private schools are being punished for Internet postings made off school grounds on Web sites not affiliated with the schools.
Tag: North Carolina
College grants paper control over content
The policy specifies that the Communicator staff has control over the newspaper, and the college is released from any liability relating to the paper's content.
Board finds UNC campus president responsible for threats against editorof student paper
An administrative board at the Universityof North Carolina at Charlotte found the former president of the Universityof North Carolina System's Association of Student Governments "responsible"in September for threatening the editor of the school's student newspaperwith sexual torture and death in an e-mail message.
Open judicial hearings fight ends bittersweet
More than two years and $20,000 later, the newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received an answer it did not want to hear.
Tar Heel judicial hearing case argued in Dec.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student newspaper's state open meetings law case against the school's closed disciplinary hearings was argued in December.
North Carolina press takes on university system to gain access to chancellor's advisory committees
Journalists from around the state have joined forces to fight the University of North Carolina for access to chancellor's committee meetings.