January 21, 2005

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  Student Editorials Yanked by Principal

  
  

  Provided By:  The Associated Press

  
  

  Last Modified: 1/15/2005 9:36:28 AM

  
  

   

  
  

  LILBURN, Ga. - Berkmar High School students opened the school newspaper to a blank editorial page after the school's principal ordered the staff to yank two opinion pieces about a new club for straight and gay teens.

  
  

   

  
  

  Principal Kendall Johnson told the staff to remove the editorials because he felt it would disturb students during exam time.

  
  

   

  
  

  "We wanted to run a censored stamp on the page," Liberty editor L'Anita Weiler, 18, said. "But Mr. Johnson censored our 'censored' stamp."

  
  

   

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