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Conn. student newspaper faces harassment claims

Posted on November 13, 2009 by | Comments Off on Conn. student newspaper faces harassment claims

Hartford Courant: Conn. student newspaper faces harassment claims

HARTFORD, Conn. – A satirical column that uses derogatory language to mock women for one-night stands has prompted harassment claims against a Connecticut college newspaper that published the piece.

Student editors at The Fairfield Mirror are concerned the controversy could affect the paper’s $30,000 funding stream from Fairfield University and jeopardize the paper’s editorial independence. The Catholic university in southwest Connecticut has about 5,000 students,

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Journalism group censures Morgan State for firing student newspaper adviser

Posted on July 27, 2009 by | Comments Off on Journalism group censures Morgan State for firing student newspaper adviser

Inside Higher Ed: The Press and Morgan State U.

At Morgan State University, the student newspaper’s adviser was respected by the student journalists and went to bat for them in fights with the administration. Now the adviser is out of a job — and a national journalism group is today censuring the university, saying that it got rid of Denise Brown for doing her job.

College Media Advisers, the national group that represents people like Brown, conducted an investigation of why her employment ended on June 30, gathering documents, interviewing some players in the situation, and offering to mediate a settlement (an offer that the university declined), and then today issuing a report with its censure decision on the university. The report calls Morgan State’s policies “legally questionable” and says that they denied student journalists the right of free expression and resulted in the unfair termination of Brown from her position.

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Students at Cedarville U. Suspend Newspaper to Protest Censorship

Posted on April 24, 2009 by | Comments Off on Students at Cedarville U. Suspend Newspaper to Protest Censorship

The Chronicle: Students at Cedarville U. Suspend Newspaper to Protest Censorship

Editors of the student newspaper at Cedarville University, a Baptist institution in Ohio, opted to suspend publication of the semester’s final issue on Thursday to protest tightening censorship by the administration.

“Because of the increasing amount of pressure to print only specific things, the editors decided not to print a last issue,” said Rebecca High, a graduating senior and editor of the newspaper’s Viewpoints section.

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Chicago State’s student newspaper, Tempo, is back on stands as controversy lingers

Posted on April 17, 2009 by | Comments Off on Chicago State’s student newspaper, Tempo, is back on stands as controversy lingers

Chicago Tribune: Chicago State’s student newspaper, Tempo, is back on stands as controversy lingers

Chicago State students delivered the first new issue of Tempo in weeks as the editor in chief and the newspaper’s former faculty adviser remain embroiled in a lawsuit against the school

The student editor carted stacks of newspapers across the Chicago State University campus, filling newsstands that have been empty for two months.

Passersby tried to read the cover of Tempo before it hit the stands this week, missing it since it stopped publishing amid battles with university administrators.

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Admissions official trashes student newspaper

Posted on April 13, 2009 by | Comments Off on Admissions official trashes student newspaper

The Columbus Dispatch: Admissions officer puts newspaper in the trash

With prospective students and their parents visiting campus, an Ohio Wesleyan University employee decided he didn’t much care for a front-page story in the student newspaper.

Flanked by a photo of a beer bottle, The Transcript story detailed “The 50-Day Club,” a tradition in which seniors observe the days to graduation with two drinks a day at a Delaware bar.

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Caption gaffe: Apostates, instead of Apostles ‘worst possible mistake’

Posted on April 7, 2009 by | Comments Off on Caption gaffe: Apostates, instead of Apostles ‘worst possible mistake’

The Salt Lake Tribune: Caption gaffe: Apostates, instead of Apostles ‘worst possible mistake’
Newspaper » BYU reprints issues of The Daily Universe due to front page typo.

Provo » The phone call Rich Evans got Monday morning wasn’t good news.

It was an employee at Brigham Young University’s The Daily Universe , where Evans is the editorial manager. There was a typo on the front page.

“It was the worst possible mistake,” Evans recalled.

The error? A caption on a photo from this weekend’s LDS General Conference stated that “Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates and other general authorities raise their hands in a sustaining vote Saturday morning. …”

The newspaper staff retrieved as many of the 18,500 copies of the paper as possible and reprinted them with the correction. And it issued an apology to the apostles. The staff also explained how it happened: an error in spell-checking.

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Utah: Women admit to UVU newspaper theft

Posted on March 31, 2009 by | Comments Off on Utah: Women admit to UVU newspaper theft

The Salt Lake Tribune: Women admit to UVU newspaper theft

The case of the missing college newspapers is closed, mere hours before a formal investigation was set to begin.

The culprits? Two women who said they needed the papers for a youth-group project.

Brent Sumner, adviser to the weekly UVU Review at Utah Valley University, said the women came to his office Monday morning and confessed taking up to 700 copies of the March 23 edition off racks around campus late Wednesday night. He said the women, who were not UVU students, wanted the paper for a project and not to protest the paper’s content.

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Cops dump MIT student paper

Posted on March 30, 2009 by | Comments Off on Cops dump MIT student paper

Boston Globe: MIT suspends 2 police officers
Newspaper copies with arrest story were dumped

Two MIT police officers, apparently unhappy with the student newspaper’s coverage of a fellow officer’s recent arrest for drug trafficking, did the only thing they could think of to block the bad news: They trashed it.

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Washington: Denial of tenure spurs grievance, accusations; Clark College newspaper adviser suspects retribution

Posted on March 23, 2009 by | Comments Off on Washington: Denial of tenure spurs grievance, accusations; Clark College newspaper adviser suspects retribution

The Columbian: Denial of tenure spurs grievance, accusations

Clark College newspaper adviser suspects retribution

Clark College got a surprise in 2006-07 when the new faculty adviser for the school’s student-run newspaper pushed an aggressive, investigative style that pleased some on campus but chafed at several administrators.

Edgy stories and editorials in The Independent questioned campus security, the competence of student advising and top-level decisions to eliminate academic programs or trim services in response to the current deep state budget crisis.

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