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In recent months, the president of Northwestern College in Minnesota, a Christian college of more than three thousand students, has come under attack over a variety of theological and managerial issues.
On Tuesday, the student government at NWC released a letter calling upon the President Cureton to step down. The one-page letter cites scripture nine times in the course of making its case.
That’s something you don’t see every day.
Nearly a thousand students and others gathered at a Thursday meeting of the Arizona board of regents on Thursday to protest planned budget cuts to the state’s public universities.
The proposal, announced in the legislature the previous week, would slash $600 million in funding, imposing cuts ranging from 4% to 12% on universities’ budgets.
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona (ASUA) and the Arizona Student Association (ASA) are planning a trip to the state’s capitol in Phoenix this Wednesday, January 28, to protest the cuts directly at the state legislature. Details on the protest can be found at the ASA website.
A bit over a week ago we brought you news of a sit-in at the London School of Economics protesting the Israeli military offensive in Gaza.
Since then, the LSE sit-in has ended in a qualified victory for the student protesters, and more than a dozen other sit-ins have begun in Britain around the Gaza issue.
The LSE protesters have set up a blog that they’re using to get out word about the other student protests going on, and it’s being updated several times a day.
Ireland’s public universities have been tuition-free since the mid 1990s, and the country’s national student union is organizing to keep it that way.
More than two thousand students marched in an anti-fee protest in the city of Waterford on Wednesday, and the Union of Students in Ireland is predicting 30,000 will join a march in Dublin on February 4.
According to the USI, the planned fees could be as high as eight thousand Euros a year, the equivalent of more than $10,000.
A federal judge has ruled against a high school student who was barred from running for re-election as class secretary after she called school officials “douchebags” on her blog. The ruling highlights the unsettled nature of First Amendment law as it applies to high school students’ off-campus speech, as well as the limited protections courts have granted to student government.
The court had previously found that participation in student government “is a privilege,” and that students do not have a constitutional right to run for student government office “while engaging in uncivil and offensive communications regarding school administrators.” It found that the school had punished Doninger for “vulgar language,” not for criticizing school officials’ actions, and that they were within their rights to do so.
In its latest ruling, the same court found that although an appeals court had cast their previous argument into question, the administrators were protected from legal action. The underlying question at issue in this case is whether a student has “a right not to be prohibited from participating in a voluntary, extracurricular activity because of off campus speech” that the student has reason to expect will become known on campus, the court said, and that question is unresolved.
In 1979, an appeals court ruled in strong language that students generally cannot be punished for off-campus speech. The Doninger court, however, argued that…
“we are not living in the same world that existed in 1979. The students in Thomas were writing articles for an obscene publication on a typewriter and handing out copies after school. Today, students are connected to each other through e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, social networking sites, and text messages. An e-mail can be sent to dozens or hundreds of other students by hitting ‘send.’ … Off-campus speech can become on-campus speech with the click of a mouse.”
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