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THIS IS ARCHIVED CONTENT FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY FIRST VOICES Landmark First Amendment Research Ball State’s First Amendment institute has launched a landmark research project with 5,000 high school principals nationwide. J-Ideas, a 5-year-old effort to support student journalism and First Amendment awareness, is reaching out to 5,000 principals to gauge their knowledge level and support for the First Amendment of the Constitution. The research coincides with Sunshine Week, a national effort to support Freedom of Information, an important principle of the First Amendment. <more> -Ignoramcer in Palin, Dowd free-speech remarks -Plainfield pays respect to First Amendment -Author creates First Amendment 'primer' -New President must revive Constitution -Traditional news misses Edwards escapade -Protesters' rights fenced off -Bad year for traditional news gatherers -Baseball and the First Amendment -Principals and the First Amendment -Thoughts from the annual U.S. editors convention -Need for print journalism remains -The First Amendment at the Alamo -Author creates First Amendment 'primer' -Unlikely First Amendment hero -Harrison represented Hoosiers proudly -Online course wraps for the fall -Blogs grow in influence, but beware of anonymity -Parent rides the bench after blog posting -Student journalist's actions serves profession poorly -Remembering the courageous Elijah Parish Lovejoy -First Amendment protects unpopular speech, too Student journalists scoop professional press
Mile high with the First Amendment... We were north of the Mile High City near the Rocky Mountains. The principals were voluntarily descending—not from the tall peaks but from their position abutting the summit of school hierarchy. When they reached level ground, we could see each other more clearly. And clear sight leads to insight. <more > |
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Warren Watson The tenets of the First Amendment often become tangled with concerns about order and safety in debates about public policy debates. From the rights of students to express themselves, to the rights of lobbyists to do business, to the rights of political protesters at the upcoming Democratic National Convention, the First Amendment is never for the weak of heart. In Denver, Federal District Court Judge Marcia Krieger will soon rule on a plan to curtail the rights of anti-war protesters at the Aug. 25 convention. The Secret Service is worried that protesters will turn the anointing of president wanna-be Barrack Obama into a violent sideshow just as dissenters of another war disrupted the 1968 Democratic convention. At issue is a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and protest groups, charging that plans to force protesters into a fenced-off area outside the Pepsi Center and stop parades 200 feet from the site threaten their free speech rights. The city of Denver and Secret Service have argued that the restrictions are necessary to maintain security. Keeping order is a laudable goal, but our nation was founded on the principle that dissenting points of view must be SEEN and HEARD. This is not 1968. The judge should not shunt citizens from places where they can protest in an orderly and effective fashion.
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