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...Supreme Court precedent set 19 years ago in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, public high school and middle school media are currently only entitled to full first amendment protection if they are established as “public forums” for student expression. A recent decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals extended the Hazelwood decision to public colleges as well. That ruling was extremely troubling in its failure to see a clear distinction between a high school and college environment—in the latter, there is a far greater need for strong, independent press, a greater emphasis...
Almost exactly fifteen years after the Supreme Court ruled in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier that high school newspapers could be censored by school districts, Welsh sought to further chip away at the scholastic press by challenging a more difficult target—college journalism...
...issue is now up to the courts, and they must decide whether the Supreme Court’s Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier decision, which gives high school principals power over student publications, applies to college papers. Clearly, the court needs to make a significant distinction between high school broadsheets and college newspapers. College papers are more sophisticated, and certainly more important than their high school counterparts. The reporters and editors are adults, and it’s time they started learning how to be real journalists, not just mouthpieces for the administration. Needless to say, the precedent...
Massachusetts is one of several states that has a law superseding Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, a 1988 Supreme Court decision that restricted the rights of high school journalists, the speakers said...
...case, Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, involved a publication called Spectrum, produced every few weeks by journalism students at Hazelwood East High School near St. Louis. In May 1983, Principal Robert Reynolds summarily ordered two articles deleted from the paper. One featured the experiences of three Hazelwood students who had become pregnant; the second dealt with the impact of parental divorce on students. Though the girls in the first piece were given pseudonyms, Reynolds believed that they were identifiable, that the article was too frank for younger students and that its overall picture of teenage pregnancy was too positive (sample...
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