Tag: Spring 1997

The principal at Copperas Cove High School stopped distribution of the November issue of The Blue Beacon because of an editorial urging students, "Don't be fighting, be polite." His reason? He didn't want students portrayed in a negative light to the community.

The U.S. Supreme Court this March let stand a lower court's ruling that rejected a California community college's anti-sexual harassment policy for being unconstitutionally vague.

A judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit brought by a Virginia Tech administrator against the student newspaper, holding that a story identifying the administrator as the "Director of Butt Licking" was not defamatory.

An existing prior review policy at McCallum High School in Austin had never been an issue before surfacing in December.

Rep. Ron Wilson reintroduced a bill last August that would require state university student publications staffs and editorial boards to reflect the racial make-up of the state, regardless of the racial make-up of their school.

A judge recently dismissed a libel lawsuit filed by an attorney against The Temple News.

A federal district court in Indiana ruled last July that a public elementary school policy that requires students to submit a copy of non-school-sponsored material to school officials for review prior to distribution did not constitute an illegal prior restraint because the policy did not "permit or require [school officials] to 'approve' the distribution."

Officials at Jacksonville University removed student editor Angie Koury and faculty adviser Marc Charisse after The Navigator published a risque photograph of a male beauty pageant.

A student has sued the editor in chief of the student newspaper at Southwest Missouri State University after the paper mistakenly published a photograph of him, pulled from the university's media guide, with an article about another student accused of sexual assault.

Six states have passed student free expression legislation to restore free speech protections in the wake of restrictions set by the Supreme Court in the 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision, and six more have introduced similar bills this session.