Tag: Winter 1999-2000

CONNECTICUT -- Ben Popik and Brendan Sullivan were set\nto be editors of their school's student newspaper this year, but\nthey were missing one thing: an adviser.

GEORGIA -- A middle school student has decided not to sue\nthe school district that suspended him for 18 weeks in February\nfor creating a personal Web site critical of his school.

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.

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.

CALIFORNIA -- After publishing a picture of a Hispanic\nman's arrest on the front page of its Oct.

\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.

\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.

\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.

Across the country, at least nine college student publications\nhave been hit by newspaper thefts since September.

\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.