Tag: Spring 1999

NEW YORK - A jury found a photography student not guilty\nof harassment and resisting arrest, but guilty of disorderly conduct\nin April after he says he was beaten, arrested and then had his\nfilm confiscated by police in May 1998.

\nNEW YORK - The editor of Tully High School's student newspaper\nreceived heavy criticism from his community, school and local\nnewspaper for running an announcement about an annual school-sponsored\nevent and calling it a "slave auction."

Angry administrators pulled all 500 copies of the newspaper off\nthe stands, because the phrase "slave auction," they\nsaid, was banned last year and changed to "butler auction."

Student editor Lucas Ames claimed he was not informed of the change\nand was upset that administrators confiscated the newspapers.\nThe newspaper's budget, said Ames, could not afford a reprint\nof the paper.

\nTENNESSEE - University of Tennessee administrators are\ncontinuing to hide behind outdated laws, refusing to release records\nof university judicial proceedings in accordance with last year's\namendments to the Higher Education Act, say access advocates.

The student newspaper at the University of Tennessee's Martin\ncampus and the nonprofit organization Security on Campus have\nboth been denied access to records describing the outcome of disciplinary\nproceedings at school.

\nPENNSYLVANIA - Ever since a state law was first enforced\nin 1997 prohibiting the advertisement of alcohol in any publication\nby, for or on behalf of any educational institution, most college\nand university student newspapers in Pennsylvania, as well as\nthe bars and restaurants that advertise in them, wanted the law\ngone.

\nIllinois' legislation counteracting the 1988 Supreme Court\ndecision of Hazelwood School District v.

\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.