CollegeMedia Advisers will no longer consider Western Oregon University a school thatinfringes on the rights of its student journalists thanks to a unanimousdecision by the group’s board of directors this month to lift a two-yearcensure.
Adviser group censures Western Oregon University over concerns for student media, administration relations
The College Media Advisers board of directors voted this month to censure Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Ore., for its dismissal of a former student newspaper adviser.
CMA issues 'letter of concern' about student media at W. Oregon
After a year beset with conflict -- ranging from an online security breach to the ousting of an adviser toallegations of First Amendment violations -- members of the journalismcommunity at Western Oregon University are ready for a fresh start.
Student reporter who discovered university security breach punished but not expelled
When Western Oregon University student journalist Blair Loving opened up a mysteriously placed file on the university's public server last June, he thought he would find information about the College of Education.
Student politicians implicated in newspaper thefts
Although other jurisdictions have successfully prosecuted those involved in the theft of free newspapers, a student newspaper in California is trying to make a university police department acknowledge that newspaper theft is a crime.