The Melted Pen

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By Shauntel Lowe
Source: Black College Wire

Drew Costley, a Howard senior and The Hilltop’s top editor for the 2007-08 academic year, said the action was taken because of more than $48,000 in outstanding printing costs. He also said $20,000 is missing from the paper’s account. Costley was reached in New Orleans where he was participating in alternative spring break to help Hurricane Katrina victims. (Continued)

The Herald will launch the 12th annual Scottish Student Press Awards.

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Source: Reporters without Borders

Reporters Without Borders will launch the first International Online Free Expression Day under UNESCO’s patronage on 12 March, when it will also organise its second “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship,” urging Internet users to come and demonstrate on its website, www.rsf.org.
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Source: Reporters Without Borders

Blogger Abed Tavancheh released on bail
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release on bail, on 11 July 2006, of blogger Abed Tavancheh. Bail was set at 50 millions tomans (about 50,000 euros). He is due to go on trial shortly, but the date of the hearing has yet to be fixed. The blogger was arrested on 26 May at Teheran University where he is a student, during demonstrations which led to clashes between young democrats and the Basij militia - students who are controlled by the authorities. (Continued)

Source: Honi Soit, Sydney University newspaper
Amelia Walkley explores the state of student media in Australia, and how our precious independent publications are threatened by VSU (Continued)

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Source: AFP

An Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said. (Continued)

Source: Hornet Fullerton College
By: Danielle Carrilllo & Alex Lawrence

Danielle Carrillo:
“My vagina is obscene.” Or at least that was the consensus among students at Cleveland High School after the administration confiscated copies of Le Sabre, the student newspaper. (Continued)

Source: Student Press Law Center
By Emilie Yam
The editor in chief and two other editors at Lewis University’s student paper, The Flyer, resigned today amid disagreements with school administrators over control of content. (Continued)