Friday, September 16, 2005
The Hosty decision has reached California, where a memo circulated by a general counsel at California State University said that colleges may have more leeway to censor than originally thought.
"We got kind of nervous," said Brea Jones, a news editor for The Orion, the student newspaper at CSU-Chico. "We are not certain that CSU or our university in particular is really interested in censorship, but it alarms us that they would apply Hosty v. Carter to California universities."
Jones said her paper is in talks with CSU-Chico's president to recognize its status as a "designated public forum," which would exempt the paper from any effects the Hosty decision may have in California.
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