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Missouri Students Risk Serious Penalties For Walkout Protests

December 7, 2014 Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
After high school students across the country walked out of class earlier this week calling for greater police accountability, one school district in the very Missouri county where teenager Michael Brown was killed chose to highlight the repercussions for students who left their classrooms. Hazelwood School District in north St. Louis County also consulted with local law enforcement to increase school security. The stricter security measures made Hazelwood West High School feel like “a prison,” one student said. “At lunch there are officers at every exit, and you can’t leave class to use the bathroom without a police escort,” the student told The Huffington Post. After Hazelwood high school students walked out on Tuesday, Superintendent Grayling Tobias issued a statement noting that the district does "not condone disruptive behavior."

Journalists Must Fight Or Become Irrelevant

October 8, 2014 Amy Cadler, www.centralmaine.com , ,
WATERVILLE — New York Times investigative reporter and author James Risen on Sunday said it is critical journalists continue to expose government activities, despite a crackdown on the press by the U.S. in the name of national security. “Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don’t, they will become irrelevant,” Risen said. “I know what Elijah Lovejoy did.” Risen, 59, was speaking at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College after receiving the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism. The award, given annually, is named for Lovejoy, an Albion native and Colby graduate and journalist who was murdered in 1837 while defending his printing press against a pro-slavery mob in Illinois. While Risen said Sunday he could not discuss the case specifically, he said that he will always protect those who give him information.
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