The media managers should be free to develop their editorial policy and news coverage. Editors and managers of student news media shall not be subject to arbitrary suspension and removal because of student, faculty, administration or public disapproval of their editorial policies or content. Only for proper and stated causes shall editors and managers be subject to removal and then only by orderly and prescribed procedures. These procedures shall be carried out by the appointing authority and include the right of appeal. All student news media must explicitly state that the opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the university or its student body.
University students are both citizens and members of the university community.
University authority shall not be employed to inhibit the exercise of rights of citizenship, either on or off campus, but neither do students have special rights when in violation of the law. Students shall recognize that away from campus while attending a university-associated event, their conduct may reflect upon the university as well as upon the individual. Only where the university s interests as an academic community are distinctly and clearly involved should its special authority be asserted. When the authority of the university is so asserted, the student shall be provided with the procedural safeguards contained in the Student disciplinary procedures, Chapter 3359-41 of the Administrative Code. The student who incidentally violates university regulations in the course of off-campus activity should be subject to no greater penalty than would normally be imposed.