OHIO -- Clayton Telles let his creative juices flow over the World Wide Web, but their current landed him in the principal's office and, after being suspended, at home for a school-sponsored vacation.
The senior at Otsego High School in Otsego created a Web site, OtsegoSucks.com, from his home computer in October.
ILLINOIS -- A federal appellate court said in August that it will allow two state newspapers to argue that a settlement between Lake Land College and one of its former vice presidents should not be sealed.
One college president said he gave the order to confiscate student newspapers because of factual errors and fear of copyright infringement.
Ian Lake called his principal "the town drunk." Ryan Lathouwers designed a Web site where users made anonymous submissions ridiculing a professor's sexual orientation.
Brian Condradt said 11 of his teachers worshipped Satan, while Justin Swidler likened his math teacher to Adolf Hitler.
And Joey Harrison and eight of his friends published a parody paper threatening to rape "the most fucked up teacher" on campus.
The common thread: They all ended up in court, facing charges of libel and invasion of privacy by those from whom they are supposed to learn. One case was dismissed.
TEXAS -- The Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District must release student directory information to the public, according to a ruling by the state attorney general's office in July.
The district had said in April that it would no longer release the information because of concerns about confidentiality and vendors using the data to solicit students.
WISCONSIN -- Almost nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision affirming the constitutionality of mandatory student activity fee systems at the University of Wisconsin, a district court judge ruled that the university
MARYLAND -- A battle that began with a letter of reprimand from\nthe school president to the student newspaper adviser at Mount St.
CALIFORNIA -- The Department of Education began a full-blown investigation of University of California System schools' compliance with campus security regulations in October after a Sacramento newspaper published a series of articles claiming the schools were not accurately reporting campus crime statistics.
KENTUCKY -- While the frustration of waiting for a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the Kentucky State University yearbook and newspaper adviser censorship case continues, lawyers for the school may be the only ones still smiling.
Documents obtained from the university by the Student Press Law Center indicate that the university had -- as of April 22 -- spent more than $60,000 to defend against charges that it had illegally confiscated the student yearbook and transferred the student media adviser to a secretarial position for refusing to censor the student newspaper.