Explores the response of the CIA to public criticism when caught in the dilemma of having to put forth information to the public about its activities and yet carry out secret intelligence-gathering and covert operations. Concludes that its response, attempted cover-ups and censorship, failed due to this conflict in its position. (JC)

Reprints the complete text of the January 13, 1988 United States Supreme Court decision on Hazelwood School District versus Kuhlmeier, which concerns educators' editorial control over the content of a high school newspaper produced as part of a school's journalism curriculum. (MS)

Soviet intelligence agents have been collecting scientific and technical documents in research libraries to identify emerging technology before its components become classified or restricted. Librarians are also recruited as spies. However, asking librarians to identify suspicious library users would violate ethics and intellectual freedom. (MSE)

Reviews legal precedents to the Supreme Court's Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision, all of which uphold the First Amendment rights of college newspapers. Summarizes the Hazelwood ruling, which upheld the censorship of the Hazelwood East High School (Missouri) newspaper by the principal. Argues that the news media have overstated the ruling's impact.…

Summarizes a national survey of high school principals and newspaper advisers concerning their opinions on freedom of the high school press. Reports that, although most principals and advisers believe in a free press, they also believe that maintaining discipline is more important than an uncensored press. (MM)

Provides information that can help educators meet challenges to instructional materials, looks at who the challengers are, discusses the nature of censorship, and suggests ways to handle challenges. (NKA)

Religious studies should be pluralistic, comparative, interdisciplinary, and objective. When these four criteria are met then the study of religion will be consistently academic and humanistic--free of partisan control, open to radical doubt, responsive to cultural interaction, and concerned with human enrichment. (MLW)

Three significant federal court cases addressing the issue of the role of religion in public school curriculum and textbooks are described. The claims of the Christian fundamentalists were rejected in all three cases, reflecting continued judicial adherence to strict separation of church and state in public education. (MLW)

Examines the relationship between the responsibility of librarians to reject materials that threaten the moral and social values of the community and support for intellectual freedom by the library profession. Criteria that justify the censorship of materials are identified and discussed. (16 references) (CLB)

Argues that in both the United States and the Soviet Union, tensions exist between the theory and practice of human rights. (JK)

As Congress prepares for the next cycle of appropriations, lawmakers and academics must consider what military research projects are doing to the universities and decide where the lines on academic freedom should be drawn, both by the government and by the universities themselves. (MSE)

Nonpublishing concerns are absorbing publishing operations, redefining them into either components of information networks or entertainment centers. Pressures toward profitability subvert independent decision making and a free speech environment is eroded by profit goals. (MLW)

Mark Goodman discusses current issues in high school and college newspaper production such as censorship, underground newspapers, court cases involving student newspapers, and First Amendment rights. (SRT)

When Southern Nazarene University enrollment decreased by 9 percent between 1984 and 1985, a select committee was charged with studying every part of institutional life to make recommendations that would result in budget reduction. Eight professors received notice of dismissal. (MLW)

National security controls and restrictions on academic institutions and individuals are discussed, with focus on how the principles of first amendment rights (academic freedom in particular) must balance attempts on censorship of unclassified publications and academic presentations. Specific legislation and litigation are considered. (MSE)