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Tag: Winter 1999-2000
Judicial board member loses position for writing column
NEW YORK -- A columnist for the student newspaper at Syracuse\nUniversity was fired from his position on the school's judicial\nboard after he penned a column accusing the judicial affairs office\nof abusing its power.
Girl denies giving permission to school paper to use quote
CALIFORNIA -- The parents of a student who admitted using\nillegal drugs in a story published in Alameda High School's student\nnewspaper filed a formal complaint with the school district in\nOctober.
Students steal 3,000 papers to protest front-page photo
CALIFORNIA -- After publishing a picture of a Hispanic\nman's arrest on the front page of its Oct.
Principal suspends student for starting rumors with photo
\nTEXAS -- The Midland Independent School District has become\nembroiled in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a student\nwho was suspended, placed in an alternative school and barred\nfrom attending his own graduation -- all because he refused to\napologize for a picture he had in his closet at home.
Judge: Professor’s suspension violates First Amendment
\nMICHIGAN -- A community college professor is back in the classroom\nafter a federal judge issued an injunction in September blocking\nthe school from suspending him for using crude language.
Police arrest football players for vandalizing reporter’s car
\nINDIANA -- Sixteen Greenwood High School students were arrested\nin September for vandalizing the car of a classmate who wrote\na column in the school newspaper criticizing the football team.\n
Several of the students charged in the incident were members\nof the football team.
Newspaper thefts mulitply on campus
Across the country, at least nine college student publications\nhave been hit by newspaper thefts since September.
Students resist mandate to publish statement
\nCALIFORNIA -- Student journalists are resisting a mandate\nfrom the Oakland Unified School District to print a message in\ntheir high school newspapers stating the district's compliance\nwith federal nondiscrimination rules, pointing to a California\nlaw that prohibits school officials from dictating the content\nof student publications.
Former Auburn editor who battled censure wins press freedom award
\nThe former editor of the Auburn University student newspaper who\nwas threatened with removal because of her paper's critical coverage\nof a university trustee has received the 1999 Scholastic Press\nFreedom Award.
The award, sponsored by the Student Press Law Center and the\nNational Scholastic Press Association/Associated Collegiate Press,\nis given each year to the high school or college student journalist\nor student news medium that has demonstrated outstanding support\nfor the free press rights of students.
Lee Davidson, the 1998-99 editor of The Auburn Plainsman, who\nis now a reporter for the Mobile Register, accepted the award\nbefore an audience of hundreds of college journalists and advisers\nat the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers national\nconvention in Atlanta on Nov.