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THE HORNT Opinion Wednesday March 1, 2006 2 - -------------- Ils~~lB888~l I~- -- - 18 The Hornet Staff Editor in Chief -Editorial Morgan McLaughlin Secondd Rate First Amendment - Managing Editor It seems that 2006 has become the dismissed the lawsuit, citing a 1988 provided protection to student media, Johri Roberts year 'to fight for First Amendment ruling (Ha.telwood School District 'v. allowing them expression, free and freedom of Kuhlmei?) which has since only applied of censorship. Adviser rights. Free expression speech are being trampled. on left and to kindergarten through high school, in The Supreme Court has ruled in the Jay Seidel right. From foreign affairs with political which high school officials can censor complete opposite of the rest of the cartoons, to right here at home, with school newspapers without it being a nation by refusing to hear the appeal of Ad Manager the issue of The Torch magazine violation of student .journalists' the students. Natalie Navarro being stolen. constitutional rights. Student journalists in the rest of the Now it seems that colleges in the The judge stated that this ruling also country can breathe a sigh of relief for News Editor Midwest may gain a stronghold in the Dana Williams censorship of free speech in regards to student run publications. "Are we there yet?" Opinion Editor College campuses are often all holding our breaths to see what Dante Yore considered to harbor a fundamental their hair is going to look like? No. role in preserving the marketplace of By John Roberts We want to see the years of pain Features Editor ideas. This is supported by the First Hornet Managing and misery they wear on their faces Andrew Lay Amendment and free speech Edtor every day. Even if they are under a protection. Students are taught that few layers of makeup. Arts & Entertainment once they turn 18 they are considered Editor Suffering is timeless, senseless. This isn't new, either. What legal adults and have the rights and something that Stacy Fong touches us all in about earlier this decade when promised to them by the Constitution.. one way or another during our lives. "Jackass" ruled MTV (and thus For decades this has included the For most, that was okay. When 14-17 year old male's minds?) Local Editor right to produce and publish articles for concepts like illness, pain, suffering Sometimes, after an especially Nicoel Curtis a newspaper for a college publication. applied to student newspapers in public now, but the battle is far from over. and death become reality, there was painful stunt, you could almost see However, this right was taken away colleges and universities.Yet the 1988 Public'- college and university simply nothing to do. These things the suffering in Johnny Knoxville's Sports Editor from student journalists at the ruling directly states "wve need not now administrators may now realize it is were supposed to happen to those eyes. Not only does this show still Chalauna Bradford Innovator, the student-run publication decide whether the same degree of possible to turn theconstitution on its we love; and ourselves do well in repeats today, the DVD at Governors State University in deference [to censorship by school head and censor student sometimes, too. sets sell well, also. Photo Editor University Park, Illinois. officials] is appropriate with respect to speech and' media. These times were marked by There is only one rational step to Ben Horak Since 2000, when the publication school-sponsored expressive activities Students may soon find their rights miracles of sorts. Family members take next. Start a channel of was shut down, members of the at the college and university leveL" under attack as administrators may be Online Editor separated by years of bitterness round-the-clock suffering. administration, specifically the dean of Last week when the students encouraged by the Supreme Court would sit together in hospital Maybe start with something light Jonathan Neal student affairs disliked certain articles pleaded with the Supreme Court to decision. A precedent has been set by waiting rooms to hear the good or in the morning, like a collection of critical of the school that were printed. review this lower court decision, which not hearing this case. bad news. video footage from sweat shops The company who printed the gives three Midwestern states (Illinois, Journalism organizations such as Now, these moments of ultimate with children slaving away for Innovator was instructed to not print Indiana and Wisconsin) the authority to the Student Press Law Center and the reality are being sold to'anyone with pennies for Walmart and Reporters/Writers the publication unless theyhad been censor student' free speech, the American Society of Newspaper a $10 bill. other corporations. Danarose Crystal given prior, permission by a Supreme Court denied the to hear the Editors, the Associated Collegiate Press For example, look at James Frey. Next could be a daily round up Lizzie Donovan school administrator. case without even'commenting as to have been in support of the case since His novel of near non-fiction of newscasters interviewing those Alaina Doyel The editor in chief, managing editor why. The supreme court has time to the beginning The SPLC, has asked top graphically describes a dentist who had just lost a family member Alisha Jaramillo and one reporter then sued the hear celebrity cases such as Anna school administrators for colleges in all performing a root canal upon him in an accident, act of violence, etc. Brittany Karzen University for imposing a system of Nicole Smith and her money battle but states to willingly and openly announce without the use of painkillers or Maybe throw in a dramatic David Leng prior restraint on the publication, which no time to hear a case battling for First and/or sign a declaration as to their. anesthesia and a detailed re-enactment of the incident for Jeremiah Magan is, according to the First Amendment, Amendment rights. support for student press freedom. examination of' a successful suicide. those who like to know the unconstitutional. College campuses are supposed to The Hornet staff encourages and Jarrod Moore The reason he claims to be writing whole story. At' first a three-judge panel agreed be a place where free speech and the applauds the student journalists of the Trevor Owens about these things is so he may save Prime time would be easy. that the dean be held liable and pay expression of ideas from all sides and Innovator for their strength and Arianda Ruedas someone from the pain of drug Medical shows are all the rage right damages.for sqaushing the students' points of view are encouraged. support of Constitutional freedoms as Russell Shidler addiction through his story. now, so this one could be called rights. However a federal judge then Over three decades of law has well as educational rights. Brittney Tormey Or what about film maker Oliver "Fatal Diagnosis Of Death." It Stone making a film about the could be an hour (or two) of Photographer events directly surrounding patients being told by their doctors September 11? What exactly does that they have a terminal illness. Alex Salvador he hope to illustrate with this Imagine watching the hope just picture? It will be a very long time drain from their faces! Cartoonist before that tragic day is forgotten The final minute of Alli Kirkham whether he makes a crappy film programming every night could be or not. something different. Perhaps the The simple truth is that these Oklahoma City explosion one night, Graphic Designer days, as a whole, suffering Columbine shooting another, Ben Horak (not sex) sells. maybe Hiroshima footage The evidence is everywhere. another night. HORNE' TIE Why 'does an evening After all, one man/country Ave. 321 E. Chapman "entertainment news" show give /continent's suffering can be Fullerton, CA 92832 anorexic twins makeovers? Are we anyone else's entertainment. Room 512 (714) 992-7155 wwwfchornet.com IT e~ui any middle ground. On one hand, I The Hornet newspaper is love money and I believe in having published as a learning a job and working hard for that experience, under the By Nicole Curtis paycheck every week no matter guidance of Fullerton Hornet Local Editor how measly the end result is, College's journalism probably because I've been a instructional program. The Everyday we're asked to middle class kid in the suburbs for editorial and advertising swallow our principles and forget as long as I can remember. Not published herein, including what we really believe in. We make that there's anything wrong with any opinions express'ed, are this sacrifice so society can the way I was raised or the the . responsibility of the function intelligently and environment I was raised in it's just student newspaper staff. smoothly. What would happen if that I like money and have a direct Under appropriate and everyone went running around appreciation of the benefits of federal court decisions, telling each other to go screw them- that paycheck. In other words, my college newspapers and selves? I'm guessing nothing good. parents are republicans. magazines are free from prior I got tired of swallowing my princi- But then there's the other side restraint by virtue of the First ples. I was weary of getting pushed of me that hates money, the part Amendment to the United around and dragged through the of me that doesn't care about States Constitution. mud. at work. I convinced myself having a job or working hard at that I had had all I could stand and something totally irrelevant to my Accordingly, information that Monday February 20 was the everyday life.

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