A nineteen year-old school board member discusses the issues of censorship and freedom of speech in high school newspapers. (RB)

Describes the efforts of Jerome Barron in arguing for public access laws to the print media and presents the results of state and Supreme Court decisions regarding right-of-access laws. (RB)

The early efforts of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to regulate advertising take on new historical interest in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision to grant limited First Amendment protection to commercial speech. An examination of the FTC's advertising regulation from its beginning in 1914 to 1938, when its…

In the years 1942-1957, the Post Office Department used controls on the low mailing rate as a form of administrative censorship, designed to limit the distribution of periodicals which it could not otherwise restrict. The Classification Act of 1879 imposed four conditions for admission to the second-class rate three of which were physical…

About 100 legislators from 15 Southern states met July 9-11, 1969 to consider the role of the college faculty member, his rights and responsibilities. In a series of papers presented at the conference, university administrators and faculty discussed the tenure system, academic freedom, faculty militancy, faculty role in governance, and typical…

This paper reviews some of the speaker ban cases that were tested in U.S. district courts. The cases discussed are: (1) the attempt by University of North Carolina administrators to ban Herbert Aptheker (an avowed Communist) from speaking on campus; (2) the class action of the Chicago Circle campus of the University of Illinois brought before a…

Unlike earlier cases, in Givhan the Supreme Court has accepted for consideration a case in which a teacher was dismissed for private rather than public speech. (IRT)

Traces the political pressures put upon an international literary association, The International Comparative Literature Association, especially the efforts of certain European governments to censor conference publications. Emphasizes the special obligation of Americans to defend freedom of speech and of thought, since Americans are models for…

Points out that the whole ethic of objectivity has been rejected by various radical groups in this country, who have maintained that objectivity is not the only reliable guide towards truth. Calls for a revision of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) academic-freedom statement to recognize that in certain parts of the…

Discussion of photographic coverage of courtroom proceedings considers both the historic background and an experiment currently underway in the state of Wisconsin. (RAO)

Analyzes the concept of freedom. Evaluates progressive, libertarian, and essentialist views of student freedom and discusses their weaknesses. Attempts to resolve the problems raised by placing freedom within the context of authority and considers implications for educational policy and practice. (AYC)

The author describes an alternate framework, emphasizing intellectual freedom, for thinking about thinking. She introduces papers developed by members of her graduate-level course in critical thinking. (CH)

Reviews "Bethel School District vs. Fraser," a case in which a student was suspended for presenting an "indecent" speech to his school's student body. Lower courts found the student's First Amendment rights violated, but the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear the case suggests these rights may be reexamined. (PGD)