Just as traditional student activities, such as speaker series and student newspaper groups, have been considered within the legal mission of colleges and universities, so also must nontraditional groups such as gay students, inasmuch as the institution must treat students and student groups in an egalitarian manner. (Author/MJB)

When prison inmates in a community college's prison program began to write for the college newspaper, their articles about undesirable prison conditions resulted in the suspension of the teacher by prison officials. (GW)

Students are increasingly demanding the right to publish without restraint by school authorities. Some censorship cases have been taken to court and won. (MC)

Records ABC President Fred Silverman's 1977 speech to the American Association of Advertising Agencies emphasizing the potential harm inherent in pressure groups and boycott's increasing power over broadcasters and advertisers. Available from: Vital Speeches of the Day, City News Publishing Company, Box 606, Southold, New York 11971. (MH)

Tells how the adviser of the student newspaper at West Valley College (Saratoga, California) was dismissed after the newspaper published stories based on investigations into alleged wrongdoings by administration members. (GW)

Describes the legal ramifications of student newspaper editor Lauren Boyd's attempt to publish a survey of high school students' attitudes toward sex. Available from: The Quill, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601, One year: $10.00, Single copies: $1.00. (KS)

Colleges are less willing to cooperate with the American Association of University Professors in its investigations of institutional violations of faculty's rights, and some criticize the organization's dual role as professional association and union. (MSE)

The American Association of University Professors' revision of a 1966 statement concerning the role and responsibility of college faculty as teachers, colleagues, members of an institution, and members of a community is presented. (MSE)

Identifies the tasks that the library administrator must complete if the collection is to successfully withstand censorship. Using an analogy of the construction, arming, and manning of a "citadel," a strategy is presented which is adaptable to the broadest range of attack on collection, acquisition, and dissemination policies of…

Discusses the responsibility of public school newspapers to carefully review the political advertising considered for publication because as a public forum paper, the school newspaper must represent a variety of political viewpoints. (SRT)

Reviews both historical and current policies for access to government information, and discusses such current trends in government information as paperwork reduction, commercialization, privatization, and electronic publishing. The possible impact of these trends on the library's ability to provide access to information is briefly considered. (CLB)

The principal whose decision to remove articles on teenage problems from a school-sponsored newspaper led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision (Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier) explains that the articles failed to meet curriculum standards for responsible and ethical journalism. An inset details Hazelwood's "winning" policy guidelines for…

While institutions have the right to define themselves as they wish, if they want to be accredited they must meet the standard of free inquiry that higher education demands. That standard places the burden of justification for any limitation on free expression of sound scholarly study on the institution. (MSE)

A Pennsylvania case shows that once a school auditorium becomes a designated public forum, the free speech clause of the First Amendment requires the board to allow other similarly situated outsiders (including religious groups) to use the facilities for expressive activity. Another Pennsylvania case involving dual employment upheld a teacher's…

The American Association of University Professors has voted to add four institutions to its list of 47 censured colleges and universities, remove the University of Maryland from the list when its Board of Regents adopts procedures to safeguard academic freedom and tenure, and re-examine Northwestern University's case. (MSE)