Creative writing assignments and personal journals have become an object of concern for many administrators who fear that works which are "dark" or contain violent images are actually threats by students.
Tag: Winter 2004-05
Police seize reporters' photos, notes
Without the backing of professional news organizations, student journalists often find themselves at the mercy of government officials who refuse to treat them as other professional reporters.
Sunshine laws on winning streak
Any cowboy will tell you: The sun goes down in the west. But for newsorganizations across the country, there has been plenty of sunshine west of theMississippi River.
Colorado gov. proposes legislation to force open CU Foundation books
In the wake of two lawsuits and a grand jury investigation involving the fundraising arm of the University of Colorado, state officials are accusing the University of Colorado Foundation of having an "anonymous nature" – and, the officials say, they are ready to do something about it.
Off-campus Web sites endure censorship
When such sites are created and viewed off-campus or are used for fair comment and criticism, public school officials typically have no real legal ability to censor content or punish students.
School kills policy of blocking victims' names
The state attorney general squashed a short-lived policy created by the University of Kentucky to black out victims' names on police incident reports, saying it violated the state's open-records law.
Private schools keep police records shut
The battle for access to police records at private universities continues at five schools, as open-records advocates at two of the five continue legal action.
Freedom fighters honored by SPLC
A student newspaper at a Virginia college and four student newspaper editors at an Ohio high school that battled efforts by school administrators to control the content of their publications have been named the winners of student press freedom awards co-sponsored by the Student Press Law Center.
The staff of The Script at Hampton University received the 2004 College Press Freedom award on Saturday, Nov.
No-Talking Zones
Despite a federal district court ruling ordering Texas Tech University to loosen its campus speech code restrictions in October, critics of university "free speech zones" say the number of campuses in America with speech codes is not declining.
States to renew Hazelwood challenges in 2005
In 1988, the Supreme Court ruled in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier that educators could censor school-sponsored student expression, including some student publications, if a legitimate educational concern exists. The ruling has limited the rights of high school student journalists under the First Amendment.