Illinois Bill Guards College Journalists

The Illinois legislature has approved a bill reaffirming the First Amendment rights of students working for college newspapers.

If the bill is signed into law by the state's governor, Rod R. Blagojevich, a Democrat, Illinois will become the only state besides California to provide special legislative safeguards to college newspapers. A similar law is pending in Oregon. Legislators in Washington State proposed a measure that would accomplish many of the same ends, but the measure

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