Tag: Spring 1999

\nOHIO - The heat is on in a federal appellate court as the\nbattle rages over First Amendment rights and prior restraint in\nthe Kincaid v.

\nHAWAII - After seeing scantily clad women in the student\nnewspaper, students and faculty, as well as some members of the\ncommunity, protested in front of the University of Hawaii at Manoa's\nBoard of Publication that the newspaper demeaned women.

Two days after the shooting rampage at Columbine High Schoolin Littleton, Colo., the Student Press Law Center started hearingthe stories we knew would come.

\nTEXAS - The definition of irony: When Adam Martinez wrote\nan editorial for the high school newspaper, he demanded a stop\nto an act he thought controversial, but his principal pulled the\nstory, fearing it would be, well, too controversial.

Martinez's editorial in the Dixie Dispatch, of which adviser John\nBriggs approved, criticized students' behavior at football games,\nwhere the team is known as the Rebels, for waiving Confederate\nflags.

It was a decision that changed high school newspapers across\nthe country. Hazelwood East High School near St.

\nGEORGIA - "It is a wonder how we cause so much trouble\nand avoid recieving [sic] the proper punishment."

So boasted 14-year-old Matt Foreman, a.k.a.

\nMARYLAND - After more than three years of discussing and\ndebating, Blair High School finally has accepted a broadcasting\nguideline and regulation proposal for their student television\nstation.

\nWISCONSIN - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider\na case that could determine whether a university can charge students\nmandatory student activity fees to finance political clubs and\nother groups that express unpopular views.

\nMISSOURI - A punishable action of defiance or an expression\nof free speech? The line is hazy for some administrators when\na student uses the Internet to criticize his school.

Few would question the disciplining of a student who calls a teacher\na name to his face.

\nHAWAII - Hawaii's department of education confronted some\nmajor criticism last fall after proposing a guideline that would\nhave required public school administrators throughout the state\nto exercise prior review over all student publications.