Tag: Winter 2001-02

OREGON ' A case involving the editor of an underground newspaper that began in 1997 ended this October, and it is not good news for student-press rights.

The Oregon Supreme Court denied Chris Pangle's appeal.

MINNESOTA -- A state appeals court has ordered a new trial in a teacher's defamation and emotional distress claim against her former school.

\n Teacher Katherine Navarre filed the lawsuit in 1997 after school administrators spoke to parents and the media about complaints made about her teaching.

Three newspapers that experienced thefts last spring had varying degrees of success when attempting to punish the culprits.

ILLINOIS ' When adviser Linda Kane was preparing to distribute the Oct. 26 issue of The Central Times at Naperville Central High School she was surprised to find that the inserts for the paper had mysteriously disappeared.

IOWA -- A group of citizens are threatening to sue the Iowa Board of Regents if records of the nonprofit foundations for Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa are not opened to the public.

\n The group's spokesman, Arlen Nicholls, submitted a letter to the board outlining Iowa's Open Records Law and asking the board to make the records public.

NEW JERSEY ' Seton Hall University is forcing its student-run radio station to change its format of predominately hard-rock music by the first of the year.

For the past 15 years, the New Jersey radio station WSOU-FM has won numerous awards for being on the cutting edge of hard-rock and heavy-metal programming, but the university now claims this style of music is 'inconsistent' with the mission of the faith-based school.

ARKANSAS ' A federal appeals court granted a petition for rehearing on Nov. 5 in a case where a student was punished for off-campus speech ' vacating an August opinion that was seen as a major victory for proponents of student rights.

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WISCONSIN ' The Center for Equal Opportunity, a national advocacy group that opposes racial preferences in college admissions, is appealing a court decision that supported the University of Wisconsin System in refusing to share their applicants' race information and test scores for research purposes.

The Center sued the university for denying access to admissions information of applicants to the medical and law schools.

MASSACHUSETTS ' Sexual harassment charges were filed at Tufts University against a politically conservative campus magazine in October.

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The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have had an effect on the lives of all Americans. But few might have anticipated that the aftermath of the incidents would have been felt so dramatically by those on high school and college campuses.

\n In this issue of the Report, we relate some of the conflicts and controversies that have resulted from a growing discomfort with certain kinds of free expression in a post-9/11 world.