OREGON -- A bill seeking to protect high school and college student press rights will likely be signed into law by Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D) within a week, lawmakers say.
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Oregon student free expression bill passes Senate, awaits concurrence from House
OREGON -- A bill that will protect the press rights of high school and college journalists squeaked by on a narrow vote of 16-14 on the Oregon Senate floor Monday and is awaiting a concurrence from the state's House of Representatives before it is sent to Gov.
Administrators seek dismissal of First Amendment lawsuit
School administrators are asking a federal district court to dismiss a FirstAmendment lawsuit stemming from the suspension of eight members of theClatskanie High School basketball team in 2001.
University blocks mailing of paper with naked Jesus, devil cartoon
Weeksafter staff of the ''radical'' left-wing student newspaper at theUniversity of Oregon dropped off March's issue at the university'smailroom, they got an anonymous call.
States to renew Hazelwood challenges in 2005
In 1988, the Supreme Court ruled in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier that educators could censor school-sponsored student expression, including some student publications, if a legitimate educational concern exists. The ruling has limited the rights of high school student journalists under the First Amendment.
Student politicians implicated in newspaper thefts
Although other jurisdictions have successfully prosecuted those involved in the theft of free newspapers, a student newspaper in California is trying to make a university police department acknowledge that newspaper theft is a crime.
Stamping out free speech
This fall the Orange & Black staff members had a choice: publish a controversial photo and risk a community backlash or self-censor and save the newspaper from possibly losing editorial control.
Ore. journalists barred from student vote tally
When college journalists at the University of Oregon showed up to cover their student government association’s vote tally after a campus primary election, they were turned away and told they had no right to be there.
Forget the First Amendment, students fight censorship with cash
Students at Crescent Valley High School inCorvallis raised almost $850 to publish an uncensored versionof their school's literary magazine after a principal objectedto the inclusion of a story about sex abuse and a profanity-filledplay in the magazine.
Underground paper case misses
A teacher suggested a student should not voice his opinions in school. The student did, and got expelled. Then he sued.