American-Statesman: UT students bristle at oversight proposal for publications
Since 1971, University of Texas administrators have had the last word over what is printed in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper. The paper’s editors and reporters, as well as other students who oversee student publications, have long chafed at the restriction.
Now, a yearlong effort by students to eliminate such “prior review” has instead resulted in a proposal from the University of Texas System that the students say would not only continue the practice, but would expand it to all student media, including radio, TV and electronic publications.
Houston Chronicle: UT newspaper editors requesting autonomy
A group of University of Texas at Austin student journalists want their school newspaper back.
The students say they want greater autonomy in producing The Daily Texan, the 106-year-old newspaper that publishes Monday through Friday.
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