The Federal Court of Appeals' justification in censoring of the KSU yearbook is based on a 1988 Supreme Court decision which allows high school principles to censor their schools' publications. In case you haven't noticed, we're not in high school anymore. We are fighting for you, for the information you read and issues you discuss every day. In an environment where students are trying to become professionals, there is nothing professional about censorship. Our job as journalists is to be watchdogs of society, not smiling faces or talking heads for university officials.
Some people are dangerous, and many try to scam the public.
It is our bound duty as journalists to inform the public. For more than 30 years before Wednesday's decision, courts had ruled that college journalists have First-Amendment protections like those given to the commercial news media. This ruling is a modern day travesty. While the decision is not final, if it is upheld by the Supreme Court it would tie our hands as student journalists forever. Censorship is frightening.