Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject:  [PSU] Publications And Other Communication Media
Message-ID: <1993Mar22.190151.10675@eff.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 19:01:51 GMT

[This is part of the Pennsylvania State University Code. It is from
the document '//psuinfo/Policies-Rules for Students/Student
Organizations, Registered/Publications And Other Communication Media'.
It is available via gopher from info.psu.edu.

Some points of interest:

Students are responsible for content.

Requires some faculty control in student media.

- Carl]


PSO73: C.  PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION MEDIA
 
     1.  The direct supervision of the operation of any student
     organization whose primary registered function is the maintenance
     of a communication medium shall be vested in a board of
     directors, which will be composed of student and faculty members.
     The method of selection of this board shall be specified in the
     constitution of the organization.  At locations other than
     University Park, a single board of directors responsible for
     supervising the operations of all student communications media on
     campus may be set up in lieu of separate boards of directors for
     each medium.  The method of selection and the terms of office for
     board members, who shall be full-time students and faculty
     members, shall be developed with the concurrence of the SGA and
     the chief administrative officer of the campus.
 
     2.  The publication by students of any printed matter bearing the
     name of the University or purporting to emanate from it must be a
     publication produced by a registered student organization, the
     name of which must appear on the publication.  Printed matter
     published by students of The Pennsylvania State University may be
     sold on campus only if it is produced or sold by a registered
     student organization.
 
     3.  Publications of registered student organizations may be sold
     or distributed in University Park at locations authorized by the
     Office of Union Programs and Operations and, on other campuses,
     at locations authorized by the Office of Student Programs and
     Services.  Publications not produced or published by registered
     student organizations may be sold only by registered
     organizations and only at locations authorized by the previously
     identified University offices.  Student organizations that
     publish, sell, or distribute printed or otherwise reproduced
     materials on the campus shall be responsible for those materials
     in the areas of libel, invasion of privacy, and obscenity to the
     civil authorities, the appropriate University authorities, or
     both.  The standards of the University in the areas of libel,
     invasion of privacy, and obscenity shall conform with the
     principles of civil law.