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...stories and commentaries in addition to what Mark [Steyn] has produced -including... the deliberations of a mock jury that argued for conviction." But when the verdict comes down, Maclean's readers are more likely to turn to Steyn's blog and column first; Steyn's photo appears in a banner on Maclean's website, with the billing "Mark Steyn covers the trial from opening statements to final verdict...
...case started in 2002, when the Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska let students cross the street to watch the Olympic torch pass on its way to Salt Lake City. As TV cameras rolled, senior Joseph Frederick and several friends unfurled the infamous banner, thinking it was, according to Frederick, "meaningless and funny," just a way "to get on television." But the school principal was not amused, and when Frederick refused to take the banner down, she suspended him for 10 days. Frederick sued the principal and school for violation of his free speech and won in the lower federal...
...banner was a joke, a prank that embarrassed the school and cost Frederick a few days of forced vacation. It did not raise politically weighty issues like drug policy or whether students should wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War, the issue in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the 1969 case establishing students' right to free speech. And making a Supreme Court case out of it was all but frivolous, a move emblematic of how students and their parents are rushing to court to vent their smallest grievances with schools...
...restriction, it invents "out of whole cloth a special First Amendment rule permitting the censorship of any student speech that mentions drugs." Stevens is fine with a rule that prohibits students from promoting illegal drugs. But no matter what the principal argued in this case, the bong-hits banner conveyed "nonsense," speech "that was never meant to persuade anyone to do anything...
...know whether the court took these factors into account in the Bong Hits opinion, but Roberts makes the point clearly enough. "School principals have a difficult job, and a vitally important one," he writes. "When Frederick suddenly and unexpectedly unfurled his banner, Morse (the principal) had to decide to act - or not to act - on the spot." She acted, of course, and for the good of the schools and students, maybe that wasn't such a bad thing...