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THIS IS ARCHIVED CONTENT FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY FIRST VOICES Landmark First Amendment Research Ball State’s First Amendment institute has launched a landmark research project with 5,000 high school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 First Thoughts for the Star Oct. 25, 2008 Plainfield: Paying Respect to The First Amendment Louis Inglehart would have been proud. A central Indiana high school will soon observe a weeklong celebration of the First Amendment. You see, the late Inglehart, a mentor to so many of us involved in student journalism in Indiana, worked tirelessly at Ball State University to keep journalism and awareness of the First Amendment in plain sight. He knew that schools must strive to keep the bedrock of our Constitution from decaying from neglect. Plainfield, you see, will honor the First Amendment schoolwide the week of Nov. 2. Each day, the school will focus on one of the five freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment – speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. I will have an opportunity to take part in their kickoff day on Monday, the second. Students, teachers and administrators came up with the idea of having a First Amendment week after attending a J-Ideas education session in Indianapolis back in early September. At the session, a Plainfield team learned about how First Amendment awareness has slipped in this country. They also learned that more teaching and more and better student media are sure-fire cures for that malady. It was something Inglehart appreciated before he died in 2006. He would have wanted to be there on Nov. 2. He will – at least in spirit.
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