| » | Free Press for California Student Journalists, Take Two! |
| Following up from 2006’s AB 2581—designed to ensure that college administrators weren’t able to exercise prior restraint over student news publications, California lawmakers are now working to ensure that newspaper advisors and other staff won’t be punished for the content of student publications. Unfortunately, that is sometimes a tactic to restrict what students publish in student-run news outlets. |
| » | Student Union “no place for free political speech” |
| The Director of Stanford University’s Old Union told students with Students Confronting Apartheid by Israel that the Old Union was “no place for free political speech” and that "controversial political exhibits" have no place in the building. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what should be encouraged in student meeting places on campus—whether the quad, student union, or any number of other venues. |
| » | Arizona Legislation attempts to restrict students’ ability to form student organizations, among other things |
| Rep. Pearce (R-Mesa) has just spearheaded a “strike everything amendment” to SB 1108 that would
forbid K-12 teachers from “denigrating American values and the teachings of western civilization.” The bill also forbids college students from forming a student-organization “based in whole or part on race based criteria” a provision that would seem to bar students from forming groups like a black student union, Chicano/a organization, etc.
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