The board of regents at New Mexico State University passed a new speech policy in October following a lawsuit filed against the university by a graduate student who was arrested for refusing to hand over leaflets to a campus police officer.
Sean Rudolph was distributing fliers protesting the university's free-speech policies when he was arrested for obstructing an officer on Sept.
OREGON -- The attorney for a student editor expelled for publishing an underground newspaper is taking the case as high as it will go in the state court system, hoping to have the student's punishment overturned and his disciplinary record wiped clean.
Jonathan Hoffman, attorney for Chris Pangle, filed a petition for review with the Oregon Supreme Court Nov.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Education launched a new database in October that it trumpeted as allowing students to access crime information from more than 6,000 schools via the Internet.
WISCONSIN -- The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh intervened in a dispute between the student association and the student newspaper in October, preventing the association from stripping the newspaper of its funding.
University Chancellor Richard Wells told the Oshkosh Student Association it could not take away the Advance-Titan's student organization status, thus allowing the paper to keep its funding.
KANSAS -- School officials and two Lawrence High School seniors with a bent for satire reached a compromise that will allow the boys to keep publishing their underground newspaper -- but only with their principal reviewing it first.
Co-editors Lee Dunfield and Brad Quellhorst said they could live with the September deal, which requires them to submit proposed editions of Low Budget to principal Mike Patterson for approval.
PENNSYLVANIA -- The security director at a Pittsburgh college refused to give police logs and incident reports to a student newspaper in September because no such documents existed.
PENNSYLVANIA -- A student newspaper asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its case in November after a federal appellate court upheld a state law banning the advertising of alcohol in college publications.
The Pitt News petitioned the Supreme Court after the U.S.
OKLAHOMA -- A federal judge in November affirmed high school students'\nright of poetic expression -- even if the poetry includes violent musings\nabout a teacher
VERMONT -- A St. Johnsbury newspaper has filed a lawsuit against the Vermont State Colleges system after one of the system's colleges refused to release student disciplinary information to the paper.
The Caldonian-Record filed a lawsuit last April against Lyndon State College and the Vermont State Colleges in Washington County Superior Court for violating the state's open-meetings and open-records laws when the schools refused to release detailed disciplinary records regarding crimes of violence or nonforcible sexual offenses that occurred on campus in the past five years.
The student newspaper staff at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minn., suspects its entire press run was stolen by a religious organization unhappy with several letters to the editor that bashed the organization for forcing its views on the campus community.
Staff members at The Impact said they think all 1,500 copies of the Nov.