From sj-approval Fri May 26 12:43:23 1995 Return-Path: Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA02471; Fri, 26 May 1995 23:14:59 -0400 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA02433; Fri, 26 May 1995 23:14:57 -0400 Received: from axe.humboldt.edu by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP id QQyrly08362; Fri, 26 May 1995 22:42:14 -0400 From: COURTLANDD@axe.humboldt.edu Received: from AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU by AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8697) id <01HQYYCO9K2O8WW8IN@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU>; Fri, 26 May 1995 19:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 19:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Hazelwood In-Reply-To: <199505262352.AA15893@world.std.com> To: sj@world.std.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: sj-approval@world.std.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sj On Fri, 26 May 1995, Jascha Franklin-Hodge wrote: > I have posted the text of the Hazelwood decision to the sj WWW site > (http://world.std.com/~joeshmoe/sj/). For those of you who are not > familiar with it, this was the Supreme Court case that set the > precedent allowing school officials to control the content of school > sponsored publications. It is interesting reading for any student > journalists who have dealt with the issue of censorship. > > -Jascha, listowner > > The thing that intrigues me about Hazelwood is that it the whole thing rests on a definition of school-funded newspapers as educational tools and not "public forums." Does this mean that if a school-funded newspaper accepts advertising or letters to the editor from the community it's a public forum, and therefore exempt? Does anyone think that this might be a basis for challenging Hazelwood? --David Courtland