Alternative, independent publications offer students new avenues to express their opinions and exercise their First Amendment rights.
Tag: Spring 2003
Paper on hold, staff fired over satirical column
FLORIDA ' Stetson University administrators fired the entire student newspaper staff and suspended the paper's production because they said an April Fool's edition contained racist and sexist material.
Sad state of affairs
From billion dollar budget crises to orange alerts for homeland security, state legislators are busier than ever this session.
Thieves ‘trash-talk’ papers; editors want culprits bagged
In what has become a routine method of stifling the work of student journalists, thieves nationwide this spring stole and trashed thousands of copies of college newspapers.
Court: off-campus speech protected
PENNSYLVANIA ' A school district policy that allowed administrators to punish students for material they produced off-campus was declared unconstitutional Feb.