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Tag: Winter 1999-2000
University suspends student leader for sending death threats to editor
\nNORTH CAROLINA -- "Everything that comes out of your\nwork is a lie," began an e-mail message sent to the editor\nof the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's student newspaper.
"It will be a pleasure to watch you bleed to death!!"\nthe message continued, "Prepare to die!!!"
The message, which threatened University Times editor\nJillian McCartney with explicit physical and sexual torture, was\ndetermined by an administrative board at the university to have\nbeen sent to McCartney by the school's former student body president.\n
The board suspended Nicholas Mirisis in September for at least\ntwo years.
Judge rules class assignment about psychedelic drug not free speech
NEW JERSEY -- An administrative law judge ruled in September\nthat a high school teacher who refused to give a student credit\nfor creating a brochure about a hallucinogenic mushroom did not\nviolate the student's First Amendment rights because the 1988\nSupreme Court decision in Hazelwood School District v.
Judge dismisses libel suit against reporter
CALIFORNIA -- A superior court judge dismissed a police\nofficer's libel suit against a student reporter in October based\non a California statute designed to prevent lawsuits aimed at\nintimidating public speech.
UC system to revise campus free-speech policy
\nCALIFORNIA -- In a victory for University of California at\nSan Diego students' right to free speech, the school agreed to\nsettle a lawsuit filed by sophomore Ryan Benjamin Shapiro, who\nsued the school after he claimed it violated his First and 14th\nAmendment rights.
Principal threatens student with suspension for distributing underground paper at school
OHIO -- "Many of you are probably asking yourselves\nwhy we are doing this. The answer is simple: Because we can,"\nNelsonville-York senior Devin Aeh said in the first issue of her\nunderground newspaper, Lock Down.
"Because this school can take away our backpacks,"\nAeh wrote.
Federal court blocks state Internet ban
\nCOLORADO -- A federal appeals court in Denver prohibited\nNew Mexico officials from enforcing the state's ban on Internet\nspeech deemed "harmful to minors" in November, saying\nthe law "effectively bans speech that is constitutionally\nprotected for adults."
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SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST?
\nCALIFORNIA -- More than 100 colleges and universities around\nthe country have signed up to participate in a pilot readership\nprogram that would provide USA Today and other commercial\nnewspapers to campus residents for a small yearly fee.
ZERO TOLERANCE
Six months after the Columbine shooting in Littleton, Colo., that\nleft 15 people dead, students across the country continue to face\nharsh punishments for expressing themselves in ways schools see\nas threatening or even unconventional.
Student expelled for home page sues private school
\nNEW YORK -- In an unusual case of a private school being\nsued for violating a student's First Amendment rights, a suburban\nNew York student has filed a lawsuit against his Catholic high\nschool for expelling him due to his personal Web site.