The warning bells first went off when the communications department at the University of Texas-Pan American announced it was taking the student newspaper, The Pan-American, under its wing to get journalism students more involved.
Tag: Spring 1997
Commission returns confiscated film, taking called 'legal but inappropriate'
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission may have acted illegally when it confiscated the film of a student photographer who was taking pictures for the University of Dallas student newspaper at a Groundhog Day party.
Court rules Hazelwood applies to teachers but offers some limited speech protections
A federal appeals court in North Carolina joined a growing number of jurisdictions when it ruled last October that the U.S. Supreme Court's 1988 decision in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier applied to the classroom speech of teachers as well as students.
Paper barred from writing about abortion
The Torch at St. John's University ignited a debate about free press when staff writer Peggy Hoey wrote a column defending the right to legal abortion, bringing the paper head to head in a censorship battle with the Catholic school's administrators.
Guidelines can help student journalists identify and use trademarks correctly
The Student Press Law Center frequently receives calls from student journalists and advisers who have questions about trademark law.
A crisis in campus crime reporting
According to a long-awaited report released by the Department of Education to Congress, only 40 percent of postsecondary institutions that are required by law to compile and report statistics of crime on their campuses said they follow federal guidelines in defining campus crimes.
Newspaper faces new prior review restrictions after publishing photos with Internet porn story
When student editors at St. Ambrose University ran a news story last fall about a computer lab supervisor making Internet porn available from a university-owned computer they used some of the porn in question for illustrations in the newspaper.
D.O.E. criticized for compliance failure
A report issued by the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) in March criticized the U.S. Department of Education for its failure to monitor institutional compliance with the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1991, a federal law that requires schools to compile and distribute an annual statistical report on campus crime.
Editors quit to protest censorship
Editor in chief John Tedesco and three other top editors quit working for Logos at the University of the Incarnate Word as a protest over censorship of the paper.
Reporter uses law to force opening of records after Univ. of New Hampshire student's death
After a reporter for a community newspaper confronted the University of New Hampshire with a state Freedom of Information Act request, administrators listened to their lawyers.