Censorship U.
You always knew college was different from high school, and not just because you can stay up as late as you want and live on nothing but Cheetos and Sprite. Now a federal appeals court has realized it as well, ruling that laws allowing censorship in high schools can't be applied at the university level after all.
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The decision was reached by a zigzag path. In 1999 the same court supported censorship of the KSU student newspaper in a related case, then threw out its own ruling and reheard the case. The final decision comes down squarely on the side of the First Amendment, ruling that a public university can engage in neither censorship nor the confiscation of college yearbooks -- the latter an act one judge described as "amongst the purest forms of content alteration."
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