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For 20 years, college student publications could not print advertisements for alcohol that contained certain key words or phrases in Virginia. The state said the regulations were needed to keep students safe. The student newspapers said the regulations violated the First Amendment. Nearly 20 years after they were adopted, student editors from the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech filed a challenge. A few years earlier, a similar battle had taken place in Pennsylvania. What was the law? What happened in Pennsylvania? And how would it turn out in Virginia?

University of California- Santa Cruz can grow by 4,500 students, under a new agreement between the school and the community. City voters had passed a referendum in 2006 to make the university pay for all growth-related impacts and services. Lawsuits had also been filed by the city, county, and a neighborhood coalition, all in an effort to halt the growth.