Following deadly shooting incidents in which colleges in Virginia and Arizona may have held back from sharing life-saving information with law enforcement for fear of violating students' privacy rights, the U.S.
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What we learned from the Supreme Court’s video game violence First Amendment decision
Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar -- but a Supreme Court opinion is never just a Supreme Court opinion.
Judge tosses subpoena for Chicago student journalists' notes
Collegestudents in Illinois have been given a seat at the professional journalists’table after a judge used the state’s shield law to protect student journalistsfor possibly the first time ever last week.
Lawyers in two online speech cases will seek Supreme Court review
Earlier this year, federal appeals courts decided three key cases focusing on online student expression rights. Now, lawyers in two of those cases will ask the nation’s highest court to weigh in.
TRANSPARENCY TUESDAY: School, college contracting practices are a rich vein for FOI data mining
When a government agency, including a state college or a school district, goes into the market for anything from legal services to canned tomatoes, ethics laws normally require shopping around.
Video games decision a win for student speech rights, advocates say
While Monday's landmark violent video games decisionwas a clear win for the video gaming industry, student journalism advocates arealso calling it a victory for students' free speech rights.
Rhode Island’s no-Facebook-in-school ban is redundant and confusing
Rhode Island’s legislature is poised to put the state atop a list that none should aspire to lead: Most backward in incorporating technology into teaching.In a well-motivated quest to respond to uncivil bullying speech, the Senate gave final passage Thursday to an anti-bullying measure that includes a blanket prohibition on the use of social networking sites on school grounds during school hours.Unless vetoed by Gov.
Student paper concerned about news rack policy at Florida
From free to fee and color to black-and-whitenewsstands, the University of Florida is attempting to flip the script oncampus distribution of publications and the student newspaper isn’t letting thechanges go unchallenged.
TRANSPARENCY TUESDAY: Star athletes are big wheels on campus, but whose wheels are they driving?
NCAA Division I football players are among the world's most finely conditioned athletes, capable of bench-pressing a quarter of a ton, dashing 40 yards in less than 4.5 seconds, and leaping nearly four feet in the air from a standing start.Signaling for left turns?
Police quest for Illinois student’s recorded interview is a timely Privacy Protection Act reminder
It started as a routine news item about two young business owners in Carbondale, Ill., who were having trouble getting a liquor license to operate a bar.