Student Rights To A Free Press

September, 1977

He thinks himself part of the New South, this high school editor in Sumter, South Carolina, and when the principal censors half of the next edition of the school paper, the kid stands up for his rights. "Sir. that's unconstitutional. The First Amendment says--"The icily imperious principal interrupts the rebel "The constitution of this school takes precedence over the United States Constitution. Students here have no First Amendment rights."The Supreme Court decided different...