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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ' Seven student journalists were caught up in a wave of mass arrests while covering International Monetary Fund and World Bank demonstrations in late September, stirring criticism of police action.
NEW YORK 'A former talk show host has been granted access to Cornell University records, which the private school had argued were not subject to state freedom of information laws.
A seven-judge panel for the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, unanimously ruled Jeremy Alderson had the right to view biotech records within the Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
NORTH CAROLINA ' The National Collegiate Athletic Association has reversed a long-standing policy that had ignored the right of collegiate newspapers to interview high school student-athlete recruits.
The policy was changed in September after the NCAA initially said the University of North Carolina at Charlotte violated a bylaw when its student-run Web site, NinerOnline, published several articles about sports recruits.
CALIFORNIA ' A student journalist at Chico State University landed behind bars for simply doing his job.
Misha Osinovskiy, a photographer with the student newspaper, The Orion, was arrested during Labor Day weekend by an undercover Alcoholic Beverage Control officer while photographing him giving a citation.
MISSOURI ' A state district court judge has ruled in favor of The Kansas City Star in its pursuit of more than 500 internal audit records from the University of Missouri.
MICHIGAN ' Administrators at Washtenaw Community College forced the campus newspaper to pull an editorial endorsement for three board of trustees candidates in the Nov.
Two courts have ruled schools have the right to punish students for producing threatening material at home when it is distributed at school.