\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.
\nARKANSAS - The Arkansas House of Representatives passed\nHouse Bill 1031 in January, which would allow all public school\nstudents freedom of expression.
\nPENNSYLVANIA - The fight over government regulation of\nthe Internet will return to the courts this summer as the fight\nover the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) continues.
In April, the Justice Department appealed a ruling that had blocked\nthe enforcement of Congress's second attempt to censor the Internet.\nThis move came on the day a preliminary injunction against the\nlaw, which had been granted by a U.S.
\nMISSOURI - She has been called by students John David and\nMatt Sevart the best teacher and mentor they ever had.
\nIOWA - After three years of battling, Iowa State's student-run\nnewspaper, the Iowa State Daily, has agreed to put $50,000\ninto a scholarship fund as part of a legal settlement with the\nowners of the community newspaper, The Ames Daily Tribune.\nThe Feb.
\nWASHINGTON, D.C. - If at first you don't succeed, change\na few words, give it a new name, and reintroduce your bill to\nCongress the next session.
FLORIDA - ReLeah Lent, former adviser to Making\nWaves, the student newspaper at Mosley High School in Bay\nCounty, Fla, will receive the annual PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment\nAward, which includes a cash prize of $25,000.
\nNEW YORK - Daniel Sorid's fight for press credentials\nas a reporter for the Columbia Daily Spectator remains\nunresolved, as his application was once again, and officially,\nrejected.
\nVIRGINIA - After round two, the score is now even between\na group of free speech-advocating Virginia professors and the\nstate government in a battle over Internet regulation.