The student government at Montclair State University restored funds, at least temporarily, to the campus’s student newspaper after a lengthy meeting on Wednesday, The Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper, reported this morning.

The student government, which provides a sizable share of the budget for The Montclarion, froze the funds last week, in a dispute over the student paper’s hiring of a lawyer to challenge the government’s penchant for meeting in private. The move drew nationwide criticism from free-speech and journalism organizations. The paper continued to publish online, but its printed edition was blocked.

The government — whose president, Ronald F. Chicken, imposed the budget freeze and told the paper’s printer to cease work for The Monclarion — restored the funds for a 30-day period in which a university official will try to mediate the dispute. —Andrew Mytelka