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This 3 page paper examines whether or not a student has much say in terms of content and whether he or she can withhold funds for the newspaper. Several court cases are used as examples. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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advertising, intended to cut down on underage drinking, also put an unfair financial burden for these student-run publications ; in turn, this hurt their right to free speech ("Court," 2004).
This is simply one issue. Many other issues crop up and much has to do with where a publication receives its money. There are three sorts of college campus newspapers
found under the law and these are "the house organ, the institutional newspaper, and the independent newspaper" (Duscha and Fischer, 1973 as cited in Wilson, 2004). The first type is
actually a newspaper that is controlled by the administration, and so the administration has full authority over its content (Wilson, 2004). At public institutions, student newspapers are not legally able
to be considered "house organs" and even though it is allowed on private college campuses, most do not want to restrict papers anyway (2004). Thus, it is rare to
have a college newspaper under the strict direction of a particular school. The "institutional newspaper" on the other hand is quite common and while a registered group
of students or affiliated group will run the paper, the content has to remain independent (2004). Of course, administrators do have a right to regulate its business operations (2004).
Still, the college is not allowed to control content (2004). A third type of newspaper is an independent one and here, funding may be provided by the school or even
given in the form of subsidies by providing free office space and the like (2004). In this third type, funding is not necessarily mandated and so a college would be
free to choose not to support a newspaper that is independent. Again, the first type is very rare. However, it is the most common type where one may run into
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