It is argued that the federal courts should recognize a qualified evidentiary privilege for universities that would require a trial court to balance the conflicting needs for confidentiality and disclosure before compelling discovery of sensitive university information. (Available from: University of California School of Law, Berkeley, CA) (MLW)

Censorship problems are becoming more complex. Liberals as well as conservatives are objecting to certain materials. And because selection of textbooks and school library materials hinges not only on content but on budgetary and instructional considerations, school censorship cases can be even more difficult to pinpoint. (SJL)

The intent of this article is to provide working administrators with a synopsis of court cases and legal principles relating to student rights (search and seizure, due process in discipline cases, freedom of expression, exclusion from school); torts (assault, negligence); and teachers' rights (academic freedom, freedom of speech, employee rights).…

Discusses the problems inherent in student ratings of professors as a method to determine salary increases, promotions, and teaching awards. Offers possible alternatives that avoid diminishing the quality of higher education. (Author/WD)

The establishment of a regulation commission is proposed that would bolster the national character of the academic profession, assure administrators that valid administrative concerns can be accommodated, and allay faculty anxiety. (MLW)

Addresses the responsibilities of the scholastic press to ensure the free press guarantee of the Constitution and suggests 42 activities for press organizations to carry out to encourage a greater public understanding of the First Amendment and its implications. (AEA)

Lists books, audiovisual materials, and organizations relevant to the First Amendment freedoms: freedom of speech and press, and censorship. (KC)

This article considers the question of politically active teachers who express their views in the classroom. Is this openness or proselytizing? Presented are interviews with a lawyer on teachers' freedom of speech rights and with four teacher-activists from the antinuclear, gay rights, local politics, and union movements. (SJL)

Schools and their staffs can expect challenges from the New Right. The author presents some practical ideas for coping with the challenge. (Author/JM)

Lists 306 annotations of case studies of student press experiences, such as guidelines on advertising, legal issues, students' rights, censorship, and pressure to reveal news sources. (RL)

The repercussions of a controversy between the administration and student newspaper staff at Baylor University (Waco, Texas) included the loss of scholarships. (RL)

Shows that many "liberal" educators who are in the thrall of obviously "humane" doctrines oppose semantic tyranny or suppression of free speech by their political antagonists, while failing to descry their own manipulations of language and oppositions to others' rights. (GT)

Highlights the development of objective news reporting in commercial newspapers and the rise of journalism as a profession, legitimating its major institutional role as the self-announced protector of the public good. (JMF)

Describes problems that confronted a newspaper adviser whose students wanted to print an editorial that included a statement the adviser considered unfair to the school administration. Discusses issues involved in the situation and procedures followed by the staff to resolve adviser/editor disagreements. (GT)

School officials cannot censor or punish profanity and vulgarity in student publications without a showing that such action is essential for the maintenance of order and discipline or protects the rights of others or that the censored material satisfies the legal tests of obscenity. Available from Willamette University College of Law, Salem, OR…