March 15, 2006

Students Affairs Leader - March 15, 2006 - Full Issue PDF
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Setting Up an LGBT Center on Your Campus
More students are coming to college already open about their sexual and gender identities and already expecting a campus that will support them.

LGBT Centers Today: A Snapshot
The number of resource centers for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students has grown from seven centers 12 years ago to nearly 100 with full-time directors today.

On-Campus Capsules
Now is a bad time to be young, author says; Student creates website that tracks on-campus friends; Anonymous fliers disparage Black History Month; Students call for mascot's return; Texas university fights film's depiction of its race relations history; Ohio university will forward all hazing reports to police; more

Responding to an April Fools’ Newspaper Issue
Each year on or around April 1, there are usually at least a handful of campuses engaged in heated debates about their student newspapers’ rights and responsibilities. These debates often include calls for the administration to shut the newspaper down. But even if shutting down the newspaper is legally permissible at your campus, it might not be the wisest move, say college media advisers. The best response is often to pass the buck back to the newspaper itself.

April Fools' and Hosty
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision not to hear Hosty doesn’t give administrators free rein to punish student newspapers that publish content that the institution finds objectionable, says a student media law expert.