Student Media
The University Faculty Senate, in consultation
with students and the administration, is responsible for providing
clarification of the role of University student media, standards
to be used in their evaluation, and the limitations on external
control of their operations. The editorial freedom of student
editors and managers involves the corresponding obligation
to be governed by the canons of responsible journalism. These
entail the responsibility to avoid libel, undocumented allegations,
techniques of harassment and innuendo, and so forth. At the
same time, the following provisions safeguard editorial freedom.
Student publications are free from censorship and advance approval
of copy. Editors and managers are free to develop their own
editorial policies and news coverage. In the delegation of
editorial responsibility to students, the institution provides
sufficient editorial freedom and financial autonomy for student
publications to maintain their integrity of purpose as vehicles
of free inquiry and free expression in a University community.
The Faculty Senate, through its Committee on Student Life,
will ensure that all campus media have written operating documents
and will provide faculty representation on boards of advisory
committees. For the purpose of this statement, the term "media" is
construed to include the campus student newspaper(s), the campus
student radio station, and the student yearbook.