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Friday, October 2, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Student publication stories may fall victim to censorship
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
Staff writer
MANHATTAN — Teen-age pregnancy and divorce may be topics censored from student publications if a U.S. Supreme Court case is decided in favor of school authorities, a student press law specialist said yesterday.
At a Kansas Scholastic Press Association conference at Kansas State University, Mark Goodman, executive director for the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C., said that a student press rights case to be heard by the Supreme Court on Oct. 13 could dramatically change freedom of the student press.
High school journalism students and advisers at the sixth annual KSPA conference attended various sessions on student press issues, including one about censorship by school authorities.
The Supreme Court case, Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhmeier, will decide whether student journalists may publish topics considered controversial without fear of censorship by school authorities, Goodman said.
The case involves Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis, Mo., where the principal removed, prior to publication, two pages of the high school newspaper that contained stories about divorce and teenage pregnancy.
The Student Press Law Center is a national legal defense group for student journalists.
Heidi Steadman, a senior at Garden City High School and section editor of the school's yearbook, said she thought the case was important because it applied to an amendment to student publications.
"A newspaper is a newspaper. It's supposed to inform its readers," she said. "If it tapes around like that, it's not doing any good."
Garden City High School senior Sherri Belcher, editor of the school yearbook, agreed.
"Students have a right to put what they think the public should be aware of," she said.
Goodman said after the speech that some college publications
might not be aware of the case and its potential effect on university as well as high school publications.
Though a federal court of appeals held last year that school officials could not censor publications unless the information caused substantial damage or to harm a student, Goodman warned that a Supreme Court reversal of that ruling could turn advisers into editors.
Mary Jeffery, newspaper and yearbook adviser at Pleasant Ridge High School in Easton, said neither she nor her school district was aware of the student press rights case.
She said that in the past her publication staffs had not indicated a desire to print potentially controversial stories, but that the attitude in her classroom might change.
At the opening session of the conference, Dana Beilengood, KU associate dean of journalism, was honored by a service as KSAP executive secretary.
KU instructor gets national post
By a Kansan reporter
Diana Prentice Carlin, wife of former Kansas Gov. John Carlin and a KU faculty member, has been appointed to the advisory board to the national Commission on Presidential Debates.
Carlin is an instructor in communication studies.
The commission's purpose is to make sponsorship of presidential and vice-presidential debates a permanent part of U.S. politics.
The commission, in cooperation
with all declared and potential Republican and Democratic party candidates, will develop recommendations for the number, schedule and format of debates for 1988 presidential and vice presidential campaigns. The board also will select debate sites.
Former Gov. Carlin was hired by KU in August. He will work as a government consultant for KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research and as an economic development consultant in the Center for International Programs.
He is also on the faculty of Wichita State University as a professor of urban affairs and public administration.
His services are on loan from Wichita State University, which will receive $500 a month in reimbursement from KU, said Jim Scally, the school's Geno Budig. Carlin is scheduled to work one day a month at the University.
Carlin's salary, Scally said, would
carlin's regular faculty payroll.
On the Record
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A wedding set, a gold ring and a
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Three jumper cables, two power saws, a wooden level, a chain saw, a nail apron, a sledge hammer and a nail drill were taken between June 10 and
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■ A videocassette recorder, a video tape and miscellaneous tools valued together at $350 were taken between 5:15 p.m. Sept. 23 and 7:15 a.m. Sept. 24 from a business on the 2300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported.
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