Tag: Winter 2002-03

The devastating effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood decision restricting the First Amendment rights of high school journalists just keep coming.

CALIFORNIA ' An independent student newspaper at the University of California at San Diego agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against the university.

MINNESOTA ' A university president can be a school's most important asset, so some schools do not want candidates known to the public until the deal is clinched.

The face of collegiate free speech could change in 2003.

\nThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago will determine if the free expression rights of college students are in fact greater than those of students in high school.

University personnel at two colleges took matters into their own hands, by trying to silence their student newspaper's crime coverage while parents and prospective students were making visits to campus.

During a two-day period in October, student union employees at Marquette University in Wisconsin confiscated nearly 1,000 copies of the student newspaper for carrying the banner headline, 'Savage beating just 2 miles from MU.' High-traffic bins that contained the Marquette Tribune were emptied hours before hundreds of parents were expected to visit the campus during Parents Weekend, said Libby Fry, managing editor.

NEW YORK ' A New York state trial court judge has ruled that a group that runs a campus food service and bookstore at the State University of New York at Albany is in violation of the open-meetings law and must open future meetings to the public.

It was a partial victory for Tony Gray, a SUNY student, who sued University Auxiliary Services in February 2002 after being denied access to board meetings.

College students across the nation are helping strike down policies that restrict speech and expression on school property by mounting court battles and staging campus protests.

MARYLAND ' An award-winning student media adviser at Mount Saint Mary's College, who faced intense pressure from administrators to censor the student newspaper, resigned three weeks before classes resumed this fall.

William Lawbaugh was associate professor of communications and adviser for the Mountain Echo and Pridwin yearbook for 15 years before announcing his early retirement effective Aug.

CALIFORNIA ' Starting in 2004, colleges and universities in the Golden State will be more likely to be caught if they underreport campus crime statistics.

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CALIFORNIA ' A three-judge federal appellate court panel has ruled that colleges can limit student speech in academic work after a graduate student attempted to criticize administrators in his master's thesis.

Christopher Brown sued the University of California at Santa Barbara claiming that his First Amendment rights were violated when university officials withheld his master's degree.