Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., introduced the Internet School Filtering Act of 1998 in February which would require schools and libraries to install filtering programs on computers connected to the Internet.
Tag: Spring 1998
Minn. students sue over activities fees
Five students at the University of Minnesota have followed in the footsteps of Wisconsin students and sued their school over the allocation of student fees.
Banned student work finds home on Web
Beware, high school administrators: With the explosion of the information superhighway, censorship of the student press has been transformed from a dead-end avenue into a mere roadblock that can be hurdled by editors and reporters who have a new outlet to publish their work.
Virginia professors win their case
A federal judge struck down a Virginia law in February that barred state employees from using state-owned computers to access sexually explicit materials on the Internet.
Student newspaper staff detained by officers
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.
Hacker instructions result in expulsion
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.
Ohio school district settles with student over Web page that criticized a teacher
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.
San Francisco school punishes newspaper thief
The San Francisco State University administration disciplined a student in December who allegedly destroyed thousands of copies of the student newspaper.
Booneville H.S. off the hook
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.
Newsgroup case dismissed
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.