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Justice White's majority opinion does leave open the possibility for broad censorship of student opinion by school officials, and threatens the long established precedent that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But on the other hand, his ruling can be placed in the tradition of the Court's belief that the content of a publication should be up to the owner of the publication--and that access to that forum should be determined solely by the owners and not the Court...
...THIS instance, all the arguments which the press generally offers against allowing the Court to require the printing of material that the owner of a paper may not wish to see appear fell by the wayside. Suddenly, the press was commited to a position of allowing diversity of opinion...
...essence, Stone contends, Socrates could have argued that Athens was on trial, not he. As his jurors knew well, he did not believe in free speech or democracy -- but they did. How then could they boast of those beliefs if they suppressed his right to express a contrary opinion...
...protectionist trade bill and an agricultural program that would raise crop prices. This give-them-what-they-want stance may make political sense, but it has also won Gephardt the enmity of editorial writers, including those at the Des Moines Register. In response, Gephardt lashed out at the "opinion centers, Wall Street and editorial boards" and exhorted Democrats not to "play the Establishment game on foreign trade." Campaigning as an "anti-Establishment" candidate is an odd turnabout for the Missouri Congressman, who built his reputation as a Washington insider. But in a flaccid field, it seems to be working...
...against excesses that might 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...