philadelphia the chamonix high school located in the suburbs of philadelphia has faced major conflict within the past month between the administration and student journalists who write for their school newspaper the play wiki and as of last year the writers and editors agreed to refuse to publish the word redskin which is their school mascot when the students refused to place a letter to the editor and one of their issues because it used the word frequently the newspapers findings were cut and editors were suspended from their positions new information has surfaced on the suspected p a state trooper killer thirty one year old suspect eric freeman is still at large on september twelfth two p s the troopers were shot the one officer brian dixon was killed while the other officer alex douglas was wounded there is evidence that brain had planned this attack for months and there are statements from the suspect concerning his desire to kill law enforcement as well as commit mass murder the manhunt continues for and as he is a skilled marksman survivalist with a fascination with war simulation making it difficult for law enforcement to track him over four hundred officers are involved in trying to find him including the f b i the u s marshals and the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives a pennsylvania state senator jim for allow announced on wednesday that he is gay he said quote i'm day get over it i love it it's a great life i've been a practicing homosexual and i'm day since at least the age of twenty four or twenty five i didn't need a psychiatrist or psychologist i just decided this was something normal for me comfortable little has served as a state senator since two thousand and three for the thirty eighth the sharked of p s a which includes the counties of allegheny westmoreland and armstrong he made the statement while discussing legislation to extend hate crimes in the l g b t community the speech while on such a serious matter was given very casually however he will not be running for reelection in november as he is retiring a new jersey high school teacher allegedly assaulted five high school students in a cold default allegedly  for intercourse as well as all sex with three underage boys which she denies as two more steps forward these events occurred on both the school's campus and in her car during two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen school year and during summer school of those same years she was arrested on wednesday evening at her residence and is placed on a five hundred thousand dollars bond don only a neighbor of the fold says i thought she was a responsible adult taking care of the kids raising the family and then all of a sudden it's like bam that's what's so shocking and it's the kids who are suffering and all of this police removed her two children from our custody earlier this week many websites and consumers reported the newest i phone models the six and the six plus have bending problems 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text and drive every year deaths due to distracted and negligent driving are increasing in fact while drunk driving rates have dropped that we have you here now decided that many high school conflict would be a great topic for us to discuss because like ourselves they have a great journalism program a great newspaper which they give to a majority of their students and the issue here is that the group of editors last year the cited that they would no longer publish the word redskins which is their mascot and to their newspaper well football players jocks everyone at the school some people agree and some people disagreed  you would expect but a football player sent a letter to the editor with the use of redskin over and over again and that letter and the group of students who did at the newspaper decided not to publish it while they did this after talking to the administration who wanted to publish the letter so without their consent it's became a huge controversy of censorship that they were shutting themselves down so we're saying if this happened in our school how would you feel if the administration decided what we could or could not publish and our school newspaper ok well in pennsylvania the way that our free speech and free speech rights differ between states so it can be decided who it goes to the administration the school or the actual editor of the journal and in pennsylvania how it works is that the free speech rights automatically just go to the journal so they have the right to on the basis of if it's just a not preferred term if it's like a racial slur if it's a name that they think is not relevant then they have the right to censor or edit out things like that and also for material that people could request to be included they also have the right not to include it on the basis of ok if we keep up with our consistent editing then they have the right to exclude an item like a letter to the editor even like if its content is worthy of being put on there they could still can not put it in and just on the basis of they would have to edit out too much on their way they would edit it already so right absolutely i think so often we think of freedom of the press as being freedom to publish whatever they want but does also cover the freedom not to publish something if they feel that it is inappropriate for the for the publication and what they want to cover that absolutely they have the right to be able to not publish that letter the journal did offer also to censor the word with dashes after the r and the high school was very adamant in say no they wanted the full word published which i thought was a little bit sensitive right and on top of that although the editors did have final say in the hazelwood case in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight they did say that the administration has final authority over the students but as students would you like to see revolting and and students pushing for their voice to be heard even if it's getting shut  down well i mean in terms of well i think that in a sense it depends on the district because i know after like after with the aftermath of this like they were calling it just like a war of words they had multiple student editors suspended from you know coming to school there's one who just had an indefinite suspension till about the end of september and one who is facing a ten day suspension that was to be like very accurate to the ten days and then the journal itself also had retracted like they took about twelve hundred dollars in funding away so at the same time i mean depends on the important the issue if i would want to push really hard for that issue i mean if we risk like losing funding for our journal or we risk actual facing actual suspension then i mean i mean it does depend on what kind of backlash might face and how important topic is now going to argue they're going back to you know they made this decision to withdraw this article they decided we're not going to publish just couldn't you argue that it's also them implying their own agenda would you say that they're kind of pushing their issues and opinions on everyone else do you mean the journal you mean like the administration i mean the journal because they chose to withhold information they chose to withhold the word redskin well ministration one of the with the journal said you know what we're going to withhold it so isn't that could that be implied in a way that they're pushing their own agenda i mean in a sense yeah i mean they could be pushing a certain opinion in one way but at the same i saying with post this even though you are using the full word redskin right but wolf here's the thing i mean they we can have to watch out because sometimes a journal might you know they might push their they may push their own agenda or something like that but i would i would be thinking in the terms of just what is what should be legally considered and what is not and just my backing would be that i can't really like i like if i was handling it i can't tell these this journal what they can and can't put on there like they want to put if they want to publish something or not publish something then i really don't have the power to take away or make them give that and when we talk about pushing an agenda then gender is only one of trying to be tolerant to those who might be offended by the word and is a school cop publication and from what i understand the community around it does have a large native population and it's really only in the interest of everybody in the school that they are trying to be inclusive make a publication that everybody feels comfortable reading now for the teacher and the journalism teacher went two days without pay as her consequence for going against the administration how but in the terms of what freedom of speech is defined as in pennsylvania state law that is not like that's not really a punishment that they can legally inflict upon her because the right goes to the journal so i don't we'll i would i'm not in agreement with that punishment upon her i may be in disagree be disagreeing with the fact that they fought so hard leigh and would push it so much in their journal but the fact that they actually punished her and gave her two days without pay that's something i mean i'm not completely in agreement with so but i mean what other kinds of things because i think would be affected i mean there's other things that the school could have done they could have cut the journal entirely they could have i mean they only cut a part of their funding which was about twelve hundred dollars and the students themselves actually have a twenty four hundred dollars fund that they were trying to raise and right already know that they've raised  thousand dollars just from reaching out to other schools across the nation so i mean we think about the harshness the harshness of the penalty sometimes is attributed to whether or not we should do something whether or not we like the punishment or not sometimes didn't do the harshness but it sometimes is right to consider whether there should be no punishment at all well and in their eyes what they thought they were doing was right right they thought they were doing something good for they've used the term as an offensive term and i can understand that i think a lot of people can understand right  so to them they did something that they thought was right and they're being punished for it and then where the line comes to that you know should you be punished for something that the administration clearly is against it's not like they did anything hurtful isn't like they did anything harmful it was it was in a way it was a peaceful protest and those into society those are always almost the most effective of getting change and so it's just a matter of you know was the punishment too big was the crime was the punishment necessary for the crime that was committed and she's a journalism teacher and the the biggest part of journalism throughout history has been challenging the status quo and this is an issue that's been coming up  multiple times in other areas for the use of the word and if she's teaching her students journalism this is something that's going to come up  garbus i mean there's a lot of different things to consider when you're defining i mean it could be any topic could we could go to any other topic of journalism when if they maybe there was something else maybe what do you think would have happened if they had decided not to include the students letter to the editor in for like a different reason maybe do you think that the punish like a punishment would have been acceptable if the student sent in a letter saying  actual obscenity or maybe he's what if he said things like well if it was something like that if it was you know filled with a bunch of terrible words obviously that would be edited ackley so it's a matter of is the word the redskins is that considered on the same level almost you know and to them that's it is and people can understand and relate to that but at the same time you know yes it was filled with words that were you know what's the word to describe those words i can't even profane but yes thank you it was someone submitted something that they want to publish with a film that was filled with profane words they wouldn't they wouldn't do that they'd either asked or get out or just going to wembley completely the dots exactly especially considering it is a school publication exactly was something else they might include but the fact that it's going to a student audience high school students they're not going to will then my point from there was where do you think the district would decide to draw the line then do you think that or the journal do you think that they would be do you think that they're just maybe they could be throwing the word in with offend maybe they're saying oh it's a profane word in general and just their passing out with them or what i think they're doing is they're not treating it as a profane word they're treating it as what you said earlier which is a great point it's a peaceful protest it's a word that they're deciding not to include because they don't agree with the use of it but at the same time it's tradition they have been the redskins for how long now you know it's you know i'm sure there are parents that have gone to this school that have grown up as you know the national meet the shawnee redskins and so you know change is a hard thing to accept for a lot of things for a lot of people and something that is so vital to this community where they view is so important it's hard to accept i think the administration has drawn the line i think we know where their line is but at the same time you know looking going forward what's up what's next for the for the magazine or the newspaper journal i guess we'll have to find out next time thank you so much katie and fred for being here and thank you for all of our viewers and the studio curl we'll see you next time i'm bursting about