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Tag: The Peachite

Adviser to sue school for refusing to renew contract

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June 24, 1999

The former newspaper adviser at Fort Valley State University says he plans to sue the school afterhis contract was not renewed in the spring of 1998. John Schmitt, who advised The Peachite at the rural, predominatelyblack campus, 25 miles outside of Macon, says that the investigativepieces his students wrote were not what administrators wantedto read.

Tagged Fort Valley State University, Georgia, The Peachite

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