Tag: Spring 1998

Student journalists at St. Cloud State University were detained in their office for two hours in April while police demanded a recording the newspaper staff made of a public forum.

Rather than spending the last half of his senior year coasting through classes and kicking back with friends, one student journalist has found himself tossed out of school.

An Ohio suburban school district agreed in April to pay $30,000 to a student who was suspended for creating a Web site from his home on which he criticized his band teacher.

The San Francisco State University administration disciplined a student in December who allegedly destroyed thousands of copies of the student newspaper.

After threatening to inflict a prior review policy on a high school student newspaper, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has dropped the complaint against the school.

A federal court of appeals has thrown out a professor's challenge to a University of Oklahoma policy that limits the use of Internet discussion groups.

Student journalists in Michigan will have a weapon against newspaper theft if a bill passes through the state legislature.

Although 76 percent of Americans support the right of tabloid newspapers to publish what they want, fewer Americans believe that high school students should be able to publish what they choose.

After six years of struggle, a case that could decide if student publications in high school are an extension of the school administration may reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Even though a bill aimed at opening campus disciplinary proceedings has stalled in Congress, it has inspired lawmakers to address campus crime while they are reauthorizing the Higher Education Act.