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              start of the game against delaware and half time dax explained the door was locked by the janitor when they left the area but upon returning team members found the door ajar and saw that screws were missing from the door knob plate sophomore jeanne mooney said when she and the other team members entered the locker room she saw that her sweater was on the floor and it looked as if someone had gone through her bag mooney said then _ . _.. ... _. b&w photc by rick potts second sting tour hits stabler bymarygreczyn brown and white news editor sting shakes stabler ex-teacher gives lesson he alludes to the bible shakespeare and prokofiev on his last two solo albums jazz-legend-in-his-own-time branford marsa lis backs him pretty heavy stuff for an artist who playftilly called his audience " — ing idiots monday night in stabler arena but then again expect the unexpected from a performer profs comment on recent censorship ruling even the right of free speech isnotabsokfiem ifeanyi achebe assistant professor of law and bostness ment rights of students in public schools are not automatically coex tensive with the rights of adults in other settings this belief includes the statement that school facilities are not public forums unless deemed so by school authorities the supreme court also relied heavily on the fact that journal ism ii was part of the school-sponsor ed curriculum for which students propriate for publication one about teenage pregnancy which reynolds said he felt did not afford proper anonymity to the female students inter viewed gave the impression the school approved of the students sexu al practices and was not suitable reading material for younger students the second article deleted dealt with the impact of divorce on students at the school reynolds felt it did not whitcomb said he seriously doubts the decision will apply past secondary schools he said he thinks it is very much limited to the fact situation assistant professor of law and busi ness ifeanyi achebe believes howev er the ruling could extend to colleges and universities he said the fact it is a secondary school is not really the question when you are talking about rights we don'thave absolute rights anym ore in practically every sense achebe said even the right of free speech is not absolute the institution does not have absol ute rights but neither does the person writing he added when asked his personal opinion concerning the decision achebe com mented i think it's reasonable authorities have to be able to reasonably govern the institution otherwise you have chaos whitcomb and zirkel thought otherwise i think it's a major step backward in terms of application of the bill of rights in a public school setting whitcomb said see court page 5 received grades in a footnote the supreme court ruled we need not now decide whether the same degree of deference is appropriate with respect to school sponsored expressive activities at the college and university level zirkel said he feels the footnote is a weak line of warning and is not direct ly applicable to colleges and universit ies i see it applying beyond newspap ers but not elementary and secondary schools he said government professor howard comply with the standard rules of fairness in journalism since the writ er had obtained a student's but not the parents perspective since reynolds received the article for review on may 10 he believed there was not enough time to make corrections if the paper was to be printed before the end of the school year as a result he withheld the two articles from publication along with four other articles also on those pages the supreme court based its deci sion on the belief that first amend by hope goldhaber brown and white desk editor the first amendment of the u.s constitution reads in part congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech or of the press claims against violations of these rights are decided by the courts in its ruling jan 13 in hazelwood school district vs kuhlmeier the unit ed states supreme court decided public school authorities on the high school level may censor school-spons ored expressive activities if they have reasonable justification the decision does not apply to private institutions such as lehigh since the bill of rights does not protect individuals against private entities perry zirkel professor of leadership instruction and technol ogy explained the case began when students of hazelwood school district in st louis county missouri sued the school dis trict and school officials after the principal robert reynolds deleted two pages of articles from the may 13 1983 issue of the school newspaper reynolds based his decision on two articles he believed were inap the brown and white v01.98 n0.26 215 758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania lehigh university forum plans reorganization friday february 5 1988 affairs of concern to undergraduates all senators will be full-time undergraduate students and elections for all upperclass sena tors will be during the last full week of february freshmen senators will be elected during the last full week of september senators will represent all undergraduate living groups the apportionment of represen tation will be determined annually by the senate's assignment and recognition commit tee according to the senate's constitution each senator will be required to meet report and discuss issues with the students in that constituency frequently and regularly during the academic year student members of the forum will be elected from the senate according to the senate's constitution three see forum page 7 by rich rosier brown and white news writer forum xviii unanimously passed a restruc turing proposal at tuesday's meeting to go into effect next fall providing for a student senate to act as an entirely separate entity from forum also passed at the meeting was a south african scholarship proposal comprised of 45 students including fresh men the student senate will deal exclusively with campus issues directly affecting students according to its constitution the function of the student senate shall be to provide an opportunity for its members to discuss and express their views upon any matter which they deem of general student interest and to make recommendations or pass resolutions with respect thereto the student senate shall speak as the one representative voice of the undergraduate on grace thefts target athletes bymarygreczyn brown and white news editor according to campus police chief eugene dax 1,290 worth of cash and articles including gold jewelry were stolen tuesday night from a locker room in grace hall during the women's basketball game when the team came down the hall at half-time the door was found open accord ing to intramurals-recreation director gregory schulze schulze speculated that the robberies probably occurred sometime between the see sting page 8 see stolen page 7