IP: Students Learn Firsthand About Freedom of Press

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave e-mail pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Students Learn Firsthand About Freedom of Press
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:24:02 -0800
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/111799lessons-edu.html
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> Students Learn Firsthand About Freedom of Press
>
> By JODI WILGOREN
> The New York Times
>
> FREEPORT , N.Y. -- There is no news at Freeport High School this fall.
>
> It is not that nothing is going on. On the contrary: The new principal has
> banned 10th graders from leaving campus for lunch. The teachers are working
> without a contract. And the girls' soccer squad went 6-6 after years without
> winning a game.
>
> But when things happen and there is no newspaper to record them, it is 
> like the
> tree falling in the forest with nobody around to hear.
>
> Flashings, "the free press of Freeport High School," dates from 1920 and 
> counts
> itself as the oldest high school newspaper on Long Island. Now its 80th
> birthday is in doubt, as a dispute over its longtime adviser has erupted 
> into a
> First Amendment fight and a strike by the student editors.
>
> "As of now," said Michael Leonard, a senior who would be news editor if there
> were news to edit, "the administration has taken away the voice of the
> students."
>
> <snip>
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