Tag: Winter 1999-2000

\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.

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.

\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.

\nTORONTO -- Unlike their U.S. counterparts, student newspaper\neditors in Canada are fighting a plan by the Toronto Star to\ndistribute its newspapers on college campuses by filing a complaint\nwith a government agency.

\nOHIO -- A high school student who was suspended for 10\ndays during the hysteria over school violence that followed the\nColumbine shooting settled his lawsuit against the school in October.

The Nordonia Hills School District agreed to pay Mark Guidetti\n$16,500 and expunge the suspension from his disciplinary record.\n

Guidetti, a senior at Nordonia Hills High School, was suspended\nin April for writing a horoscope column in which he advised Scorpios\nto "practice what your reaction is to all those college applications\nthat you sent out.

\nMISSOURI -- One of the first high school students to sue\na school district that punished him for the content of a personal\nWeb site settled his case against the district in July.

\nWYOMING -- The University of Wyoming's student publications\nboard decided in October not to eliminate Frontiers magazine\nafter announcing that Frontiers and two other publications\nmight be eliminated in order to channel funds into the student\nnewspaper.

INDIANA -- When Marina Hennessy started working on a story\nabout hazing for Avon High School's student newspaper, she wanted\nto show that incidents, such as an alleged assault involving the\nswim team at nearby Carmel High School, did not happen at Avon.\n

Until she found out they did.

CALIFORNIA -- A professor at the City College of San Francisco filed a lawsuit in October against a former CCSF student over a Web site that allows students to post reviews of professors.

"It's sending lies, death threats and defamation against teachers around the world," English professor Daniel Curzon-Brown said of the Teacher Review Web site.

Curzon-Brown charged in his suit that the site has caused him emotional distress by publishing statements about him and other professors that are false and defamatory.

\nPENNSYLVANIA -- After only a quarter of the 3,000 seniors\nat the University of Pittsburgh purchased a yearbook last year\n-- leaving the publication with a large deficit -- administrators\nstepped in, transferring control over the yearbook from students\nto the public affairs department.

"The yearbook was about to go out of business anyway,"\nsaid Ken Service, a university spokesman.