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Tag: Spring 1997

When the medium determines the freedom old-fashioned censorship is often the result

Uncategorized
May 1, 1997

Part of our mission at the Student Press Law Center is to relay the stories of student journalists and advisers who are frustrated by censorship.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Newspaper must open business records

Uncategorized
May 1, 1997

A state district court judge has decided that the public has a right to see the business records of the student newspaper at Iowa State University.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Newspaper thefts spark new solutions

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May 1, 1997

In recent years, the Student Press Law Center has heard from hundreds of student publications that have had problems with newspaper theft.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Same-sex marriage TV forum censored

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May 1, 1997

The Montgomery County School Board overruled the school superintendent in April and said school officials should not have pulled the plug on a student-run television program.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Judges, lawmakers diagree about tuition waivers

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May 1, 1997

In the wake of a controversy over the allegedly improper distribution of college scholarships to Illinois legislators' political friends, lawmakers and judges are disagreeing over how the state open records law applies to the confidentiality of scholarship recipients.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Newspaper theft bill moves in Mass. legislature

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May 1, 1997

A bill that would explicitly criminalize the taking of free-distribution newspapers is progressing in the state legislature here.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Live student talk show pulled off the air

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May 1, 1997

Three minutes into a television interview between a student journalist at Lincoln High School and a transvestite guest in December, Dallas school officials yanked "Getting Personal" from the school district's public-access channel.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Purdue wins battle over NCAA records

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May 1, 1997

A state superior court judge has ruled against a Fort Wayne newspaper that sued Purdue University for access to grievances filed by the former women's basketball coach and records of potential violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Communications Decency Act in court

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May 1, 1997

The U.S. Supreme Court jumped into the middle of the debate over censorship in cyberspace this spring.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

Extra-curricular activities cut in Utah

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May 1, 1997

When the Salt Lake City School Board found they could not single out and ban a gay student organization at East High School last March, they voted instead to eliminate all extra-curricular student clubs in the district.

Tagged reports, Spring 1997

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