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Tag: Winter 1996-97

Illinois tuition waivers scandal prompts challenge in court, change in state law

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December 1, 1996

Universities, courts and the state legislature are locked in an access struggle involving political patronage and school scholarships.

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

Law student banned from reporting

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December 1, 1996

A University of Miami honor court has disciplined a student newspaper editor for possessing confidential school records and attempting to write a story on affirmative action.

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

Principal names himself paper's editor

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December 1, 1996

In an unusual twist to the issue of high school censorship, principal Pete McMurry of Itawamba Agricultural High School has named himself editor in chief of the student newspaper after students sought to include a political cartoon in the paper last spring.

Tagged Itawamba Agricultural High School, MIssissippi, reports, Winter 1996-97

Court opens Mich. presidential search

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December 1, 1996

A Michigan court has ordered a state university to conduct its presidential searches in open meetings.

Tagged executive personnel searches, reports, University of Miichigan, Winter 1996-97

New student speech protections proposed

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December 1, 1996

A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would have offered new protection for students' free speech rights.

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

School board sues New York Commissioner

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December 1, 1996

A case of high school censorship has gone before the second highest court in the state of New York.

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

Education Department issues rules late, delays implementation of disclosure laws

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December 1, 1996

Waiting to see the graduation rates of your classmates? Well, you better not hold your breath. Unless, that is, you can hold it for six years.

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

Conservative paper wins against censoring senate

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December 1, 1996

After a long struggle, a conservative student newspaper at Northwestern University has won the right to distribute freely on campus.

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

Two bills not passed called restrictive

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December 1, 1996

Bills that could have placed more restrictions on high school student press freedom failed to become laws during the 104th Congress.

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

Making the Grade

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December 1, 1996

Click here for the updated legal guide

Tagged reports, Winter 1996-97

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