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The New Alternative Press on Campus |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Morgan N. Knull |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,354 Words, 15,665 Characters |
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But campus journalists, especially those voicing conservative opinions, have discovered a different lesson: Free speech can be costly. In 1999, the Student Press Law Center tracked 193 cases of media censorship at American colleges, with the incidents ranging from the suppression of stories by administrators to outright paper theft.
Although federal court decisions during the past decade consistently have struck down speech codes and discriminatory student fee allocations, university authorities and would-be student censors seem unwilling to abandon the urge to control the open flow of information and ideas. In their 1998 book The Shadow University, civil libertarians Alan Kors and Harvey Silverglate declared that "the theft of student publications at universities is pandemic."
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...t is a major campus activity these days," U.S. News & World Report columnist John Leo recently lamented. But despite the many obstacles faced by conservative papers, their student editors have proven steadfast in supporting the free flow of ideas on America's college campuses. That is one cause to which Sam Adams, an early American brewer and press rabble-rouser, would offer a hearty toast.
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