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...search of student possessions without a warrant and has allowed school officials to suspend a student for making sexual innuendos in a speech. The Justices were in that mood again last week when, in a 5 to 3 ruling, the court upheld a high school principal's right to censor a student newspaper...
Justice William Brennan, in a dissent joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun, strongly rejected the notion that school-sponsored speech was less worthy of protection than any other. He complained that the new ruling might permit school officials to censor anything that personally offended them. "The young men and women of Hazelwood East expected a civics lesson," he lamented, "but not the one the court teaches them today...
Stop the presses ! The Supreme Court says school officials can censor student newspapers. -- Doctors vs. lawyers again over malpractice...
...constitute censorship of the most capricious kind. What are "legitimate pedagogical concerns" if not any concerns some school official decides to be legitimate and pedagogical? How far may principals go in remaking high schools according to their personal ideals? According to Justice White's majority opinion, views officials might censor include any that might "associate the school with any position other than neutrality on matters of public controversy...
...officials insist that their standard on what is permissible will not change because of the ruling. Still, it could open the way for more explicit radio conversation in the wee hours, more uncut movies on post-midnight TV, and perhaps even a few more naughty words sneaking by the censor on Late Night with David Letterman...