Tag: Winter 2002-03

Administrators at two schools have been forced to clarify their policies regarding underground newspapers after student journalists protested being censored.

In the midst of a legal battle over two high school students' right to distribute an underground newspaper in Michigan, the South Lyon Community School Board has approved a definitive policy on student distribution of outside material.

The new five-page policy specifically concerns what it calls time, place and manner restrictions, review procedure and content-based restrictions on 'written matter, which is not sponsored or officially endorsed by the district and which is intended for general distribution.'

South Lyon High School Principal Larry Jackson suspended three students last spring for trying to distribute their underground newspaper, The First Amendment, at school.

COLORADO ' Journalists in Colorado gained more protection against lawsuits resulting from mistakes in reporting.

In a 4-3 decision by the Colorado Supreme Court Sept.

CALIFORNIA ' Administrators at the University of California at San Diego have backed off their claims that a student organization's Web site was in violation of the U.S.A.

VIRGINIA ' The principal at Middlesex High School has halted the insertion of the high school newspaper into a local daily, drastically cutting circulation and leaving students to question his reasoning.

Principal David Bridges said the Big Blue Review should not be considered a public forum for the whole community because it is a learning tool for students.

SOUTH CAROLINA ' A school district superintendent cited a policy prohibiting advertising in school publications when he held distribution of Gaffney Middle School's new student paper.