Cate Charron: As bad as IU’s behavior has been, it is not the only offender when it comes to censorship of student media.
Indiana University’s official motto is “Lux e Veritas. In English, that means “Light and Truth.” But you wouldn’t know it by the way it has censored student journalists and skated transparency.regarding a sexual misconduct case at IU’s Jacobs School of Music. I found the university did not follow its word when disciplining a student who violated his suspension he received after being found responsible for sexual assault.
that I should have received those records and how some of the university’s reasoning for denial was “absurd.”In order for me to receive records I was entitled to, I had to tap into multiple legal support systems, convince myself this battle was one worth pursuing and establish a new precedent for requesting student sexual assault records in Indiana. I shouldn’t have had to do any of that — especially for records regarding student safety.
Hundreds of high school and college students each year struggle to report critical and crucial stories about their on and off campus communities — and it’s not because they are learning how to do journalism. School boards and universities are overstepping its power and breaking the law through attempts to censor student media.
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