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Have you heard about Governors State University? "The obdurate colleges and universities listed here have restricted self-expression in violation of the First Amendment or have punished students or faculty without affording them due process. Those who reject the police state and the slave mentality would be well-advised to avoid these schools." Colleges to Avoid: Governors State University Read Why See how students rate GSU (please read ALL the comments) StudentsReview.com Yahoo Group: GSU Underground Armstrong Atlantic State University Editors sue Ga. college over cuts to student paper's budget - July 1, 2008 Are you writing about Hosty v. Carter , Porche v. Oden or Blahut v. Oden ? Get your facts straight - get in touch with the Plaintiffs! Contact us at rebelyell5877@yahoo.com Case documents for Porche v. Oden P - Amended Complaint Case documents for Blahut v. Oden P - Original Complaint (Aug. 2005) D - Motion to Dismiss (Feb. 2006) P - Reply to Motion to Dismiss D - Reply to Motion to Dismiss P - Amended Complaint (June 2006) Judge's Order - Motion to Dismiss (July 2006) D - Motion for Summary Judgment P - Reply to Motion for Summary Judgment D - Reply to Motion for Summary Judgment Judge's Order - Motion for Summary Judgement (Sept. 2007) Articles on Blahut v. Oden SPLC Article - Feb. 2006 SPLC Article - Sept. 2007 View the samples of the 2003 - 2004 Phoenix Sample Sections - March 2004 Sample Sections - April 2004 Sample Cover - August 2004 Sample Sections - May 2004 View Hosty v. Carter documents at CollegeFreedom.org Future journalists, choose your school wisely. Check your facts - be informed! The Public Forum List - Is your school listed? ..
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Do you enjoy your freedom of speech? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution- If you are confused as to why you received an invite to this page, please visit the FAQ blog by clicking the link below: FAQ BLOG LINK What are we about?Preserving the rights many have died to provide us with - the very basic of all of them being FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Court battles like Hosty v. Carter have the potential to negatively impact freedom of speech on a college campus. Whether you agree with their style of journalism or not, the fundamental reason to support this cause is to continue to preserve the idea of college being a market place of ideas. By limiting speech in campus publications, you are giving the administration the authority to make content revisions; further reducing the brainstorm of ideas generated in the minds of college students across the nation based on the administration's preferences and biases. Where will it end? Although the Hosty case immediately affects only three states, the potential is great for other states to rule similarly in other free speech cases. It could also spill into music, art, poetry, etc... By ruling in favor of GSU in June, on a basic level, the courts application of the Hazelwood case now extends to college campuses. College-aged students are seen in the same light as high school students with regard to free speech. High school administrators are already granted the authority to revise content in a student publication (Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier). It is wise to caution that eventually ALL forms of speech at any level will be required to adhere to guidelines written by the government, administrators and others in positions of power. Hosty v. Carter will not only affect Governors State University - it will have a domino effect on every university nation wide and may set the precedence for future first amendment cases. We are about spreading the word recruiting others through knowledge and information to join the fight to save freedom of speech. So before you join, ask yourself: is Freedom of Speech worth fighting for? Journalists killed around the world
I'd like to meet: More campus free speech cases "Understandably, I am dismayed by the court's opinion, and find it troubling and grossly flawed; it demonstrates a considerably deficient comprehension on the part of the majority of the appellate judges of the allegations, university policy, deposed statements, material documents, and timeline of events evidenced by said items, which might be why the court reached such an erroneous decision. Doubtless, if the court's decision is permitted to stand, the results will be disastrous for adult students in any expressive venue who might clash with prurient or political administrative interests. Regardless of our pro se status, my coplaintiffs and I are resolved to appeal to the nation's highest court." -Statement by Margaret Hosty, co-plaintiff, June 20, 2005 "Students should, regardless of their academic interests, consider an institution's commitment to free speech before deciding whether to attend." -Statement by SPJ President Christine Tatum. "The implications are frightening to college journalists and should be frightening to readers." - University Wire, Ball State University "People tend to think this is just a newspaper thing, but this is about free expression for everybody, not just journalists," said Jim Killam, president of the Illinois College Press Association. "This could extend to students on campus and to all kinds of things that could be considered school sponsored. It could have a really chilling effect on free speech on campuses if this thing goes through." - Illinois College Press Association Q: What has been the personal cost to you? Margaret Hosty: It's been very taxing, emotionally, physically and mentally. Financially it has seriously impeded our getting on with our lives. They are still retaliating against us, for which we are going to have to probably bring other litigation against them. We both should have graduated about a year ago. Have you ever been on a campus and had armed guards posted at doors to keep you out of places? They were not being subtle about their animosity towards us. The thing that people don't seem to realize is, because GSU has done such a wonderful job keeping it out of the press, we're not the only students who have made charges of violations of fourteenth and First amendment violations against this university. There are 32 other people who have done as much. They had the same judge we did and they are going to be before the appellate court. And if there were a student newspaper, or a student newspaper that was not in the back pocket of the administration, perhaps we would have been able to tell them. Read the entire interview by clicking here What Can You Do? Are you interested in helping? Do you belong to an organization or group interested in showing support for the student editors? Email us at Rebelyell5877@yahoo.com for details on how you can contribute! This case not over. You can continue to make a difference. Here's how: 1.) Stay informed about the case(s) and make sure your campus community is as well. The First Amendment rights of all public college and university students could be affected by this ruling. How many people on your campus have even heard about the case? Make sure you know what's at stake and your audience does as well. 2.) Ask your top school administrators to sign off on a statement supporting student press freedom and give them heat if they aren't willing to do so. What this statement should say can be as simple as this: [Name of school] recognizes and affirms the editorial independence and press freedom of all student-edited campus media. Student editors have the authority to make all content decisions and consequently they bear the responsibility for the decisions that they make. 3.) Keep the pressure on your school officials to express their support for student free expression in writing, and keep your readers informed about the progress of your effort. Start a campus petition or a blue-ribbon campaign (in support of free expression) and create a regular feature for your publication about the status of free expression protections on your campus. S.P.L.C. This space is maintained by those dedicated to saving freedom of speech on college campuses! Email us at: Rebelyell5877@yahoo.com or send us a message via MySpace! College Freedom - Blogspot Fanning the Flames - The Freedom Museum Blog
Music: "Paranoia strikes deep. Into your life it will creep. It starts when youre always afraid. You step out of line, the man come and take you away." For what its worth,Buffalo Springfield "...We are at war until you're free. You'll never silence tha voice of the voiceless. And Orwell's hell a terror era coming through; But this little brother's watching you too." Voice Of The Voiceless, Rage Against The Machine "Some folks inherit star spangled eyes, Ooh, they send you down to war; And when you ask them, 'How much should we give?' They only answer "More! More! More!" Fortunate Son, CCR "I will see my own blood flow, Before you take my land...or my liberty" Memory Of The Dead, Rage Against The Machine Where you live should not decide Whether you live or whether you die. Crumbs from Your Table, U2 "Under a blood red sky, A crowd has gathered in black and white. Arms entwined, the chosen few. The newspapers says, says Say it's true it's true... And we can break through. Though torn in two, We can be one" New Year's Day, U2 "We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing. When it's said and done, we haven't told you a thing. We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry." Dirty Laundry, Don Henley
Television: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door ." Forums Click to join the College Press Freedom Forum
Books: "Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people." -Ralph Waldo Emerson WHAT'S NEXT? "The less you know the more you believe." Last Night on Earth, U2 "...The FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment to the Constitution. I'd like to repeat that because it sounds vaguely important: The FCC, an appointed body, not elected, answerable only to the President, decided on its own that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment to the Constitution! Why did they decide that? Because they got a letter from a reverend in Mississippi! A reverend Donald Wildman in Mississippi heard something on the radio that he didn't like... Well reverend, did anyone ever tell you that there are two knobs on the radio? Two knobs on the radio! Of course, I'm sure the reverend isn't too comfortable with anything that has two knobs on it... Well hey, reverend, there are two knobs on the radio! One of the turns the radio off, the other changes the station! Imagine that, reverend! You can actually change the station! It's called freedom of choice, and it's one of the principles this country was founded on! Look it up in the library, reverend, if you have any of them left when you've finished burning all the books!" ..-George Carlin, What Am I Doing In New Jersey?
Heroes: In a prepared statement, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said: "There are times when the greater good of our democracy demands an act of conscience. Judy has chosen such an act in honoring her promise of confidentiality to her sources. She believes, as do we, that the free flow of information is critical to an informed citizenry." "For in a Republic, who is "the country?" Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." -Mark Twain "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson "If we don't believe in freedom of speech for those you despise, we don't believe in it at all." -Noam Chomsky "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." -Benjamin Franklin "In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically." -G.A. Wells "The more restrictions and prohibitions in the world, the poorer people get." -Lao Tzu "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." -Buddha "The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." -Robert G. Ingersoll "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -Thomas Sowell "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "...when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon." -Thomas Paine "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin "Be a Citizen, Not a Subject. Democracy is not a Spectator Sport!" -Author Unknown "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -H. L. Mencken "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first objective should be to keep the right; and were it to me to decide whether we should have a government without a newspaper or a newspaper without a government i should hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." -Thomas Jefferson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -Ronald Reagan "Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. " -David George "When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." -Robert A. Heinlein "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas." -Carl Sagan "The function on science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." -Frank Herbert "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix "Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom." -Frank Zappa "Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality" -Frank Zappa
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Hometown:	University Park, Illinois
Education:	In college
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Public online spaces dont carry speech rights
'Public' online spaces don't carry speech rights By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Jul 6, 2:17 PM ET Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remark... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:11:00 PST
Editors sue Ga. college over cuts to student paper’s budget
Editors sue Ga. college over cuts to student paper's budget © 2008 Student Press Law Center July 1, 2008 GEORGIA Student editors at Armstrong Atlantic State University's... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:58:00 PST
Colleges take variety of approaches in overseeing student media
Colleges take variety of approaches in overseeing student media By Melanie Bengtson First Amendment Center Online intern 06.13.08 When the editor in chief of the Rocky Mountain Collegian wro... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:36:00 PST
Editor in Georgia plans lawsuit over cuts to student paper’s budget
Editor in Georgia plans lawsuit over cuts to student paper’s budget © 2008 Student Press Law Center March 24, 2008 GEORGIA The editor in chief of Armstrong Atl... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:02:00 PST
Editors resign over private college’s censorship of student paper in Illinois
Editors resign over private college's censorship of student paper in Illinois© 2008 Student Press Law Center ILLINOIS The editor in chief and two other editors at Lewis University's student paper, T... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:41:00 PST
Bid to safeguard Wash. student press fails again
Bid to safeguard Wash. student press fails again By Melanie BengtsonFirst Amendment Center Online intern 02.06.08 After a failed attempt in 2007 to protect students' free speech and press, Washington... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:31:00 PST
Talk of ’strategic partnership’ with Gannett leaves student paper’s staffers on edge at Colo. S
School officials did not inform student journalists of 'preliminary' discussions with commercial media giant http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1670... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:52:00 PST
Former editors case against Governors State administrators dismissed
Former editors' case against Governors State administrators dismissedJudge rules former staffers lack standing to pursue claims© 2007 Student Press Law CenterSeptember 28, 2007ILLINOIS The U.S.... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:47:00 PST
Victory for Freedom of Speech at Indiana UniversitySouth Bend
Victory for Freedom of Speech at Indiana UniversitySouth Bend Wrongful Sanctions Against Student Journalist Reversed, but Concerns Remain September 20, 2007 - FIRE Press Release SOUTH BEND, Ind., S... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:58:00 PST
College journalists, advisers welcome new protections in Illinois
College journalists, advisers welcome new protections in IllinoisLaw protects independence of student media at state schools© 2007 Student Press Law CenterSeptember 10, 2007ILLINOIS After Illin... Posted by Freedom of Speech on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:05:00 PST
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