Tag: Winter 1997-98

A Florida student who is suing his college said he believes censorship played a role in the loss of his position at the student newspaper.

The administration was behind the disappearance of about 500 copies of the student newspaper at Kansas City, Kan., Community College in September.

In reality, the best advice for most schools that want to protect their pocketbooks and stay out of court is to refrain from editorial decision-making and content control of student publications.

Stanford University and the Stanford Daily reached a settlement agreement in October in a 2-year-old lawsuit regarding the newspaper's distribution on campus.

Journalists at Lexington High School and student press advocates across the country are celebrating a victory they have been working toward for nearly five years.

For the seventh time in one year, the University of California at Berkeley's student newspaper, The Daily Californian, was ripped off.

The state supreme court decided Sept. 4 to consider the appeal of a Virginia Tech administrator who brought a libel lawsuit against the student newspaper. The newspaper had identified the administrator as the "Director of Butt Licking."

For possibly the first time in history, college newspaper editors from around the country have collaborated in an effort to support a fellow college newspaper in its ongoing disagreement with a local commercial newspaper over their competitive relationship.

A state appellate court upheld the dismissal of a former student's case against the student newspaper at Hofstra University in a ruling issued Dec. 4.