Four first-year students were disciplined last semester and threatened with expulsion after creating a Facebook.com group that harshly criticized their writing instructor.
Tag: Spring 2009
High School Censorship In Brief
A U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled in September that school officials did not violate a student's rights when he was suspended for writing a violent and sexually explicit story using the names of his classmates.
College Censorship In Brief
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that advocates students' free expression rights, filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 31 against Troy University for a speech code FIRE's President David French called "incompatible with a free society."
Access In Brief
After two years and a lengthy court battle, the Daily O'Collegian, the student newspaper at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, obtained an incident report on a recent graduate who is now an NFL running back.
Newspaper Theft In Brief
More than 8,500 copies of The Daily Utah Chronicle were stolen from campus bins at the University of Utah in November in what newspaper staff said was an effort by the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha to censor a letter to the editor about hazing.