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Tired of a perceived bias in The Daily Nebraskan, conservative students at the Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln have launched a publication imaginatively titled “Student Newspaper.”
From College Media Matters:
In an early December article acknowledging its new competition, The Daily Nebraskan wrote: “From a scathing indictment of ‘The Female O’- a sex education forum held at UNL last month- to [...]

More than 800 students are planning a Friday protest against a controversial opinion column that ran last week in the University of Washington student newspaper, the Seattle PI reports.
“Now, there are several major problems with legalizing gay marriage,”  columnist John Fay wrote. “Once you’ve legalized gay marriage, why not polygamy, incest, bestiality or any other [...]

A group of Duke University students arose at 4 a.m. today to plaster campus with posters calling for The Chronicle’s editor-in-chief, Chelsea Allison, to resign. It was a reaction to an Oct. 10 story giving details of an unnamed student attempting suicide. This letter to the editor ran Oct. 15.
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Student Press Law Center

The man who stole 1,300 newspapers from Texas Christian University and deposited them in recylce bins around campus has turned himself in.
From the SPLC story: “Charles Beecherl, an entrepreneurial business major, told the Daily Skiff he dumped the Sept. 23 papers because it went too far in publishing a photo of a [...]

About 1,300 copies of the Sept. 17 issue of The Echo were stolen, the Student Press Law Center reports.
Adviser David Keith said he thinks the theft might be due to an editorial criticizing the student government president at the University of Central Arkansas. 
From SPLC: “Keith said the paper would pursue legal action against whoever stole [...]

The Vanderbilt Hustler made the controversial decision to run the 51 mugshots of Sigma Chi fraternity members arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and underage drinking.
After many critical comments, the editor posted this response.
“The presentation of the cover story was meant to be provocative and eye-catching; this reflects the extraordinary nature of the story. There [...]

Student Press Law Center
The student government association at the University of Redlands cut the student paper’s budget from $39,000 to $10,000. The Association of Students President says that student support at the private university for the newspaper isn’t there, and also that “some students were unhappy with certain articles” the weekly newspaper published.

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The Advance-Titan
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will fund free newspapers Monday through Friday as part of the Collegiate Readership Program managed by USA Today until Oct. 3. Oshkosh Student Association President said providing copies of USA Today, The New York Times and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will cost about $3.25/student. “The mission of the readership program is to promote [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Student newspapers seem to be doing fine, despite the problems professional papers are facing: “We’re not experiencing a problem,” said Kevin Schwartz, general manager at The Daily Tar Heel, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.“There’s no advertising downturn for us.”

San Bernadino County Sun

The University of Redlands student newspaper has no editor heading into the 2008-09 school year. Funding could be reduced if student interest remains low. The school’s vice president and dean of student life, Char Burgess, says the school is considering offering journalism classes to promote interest in the paper. “The Bulldog was [...]