March 3, 2000

Student Press at Black Colleges Faces 'a New Wave of Censorship'

By LEO REISBERG

Officials, long frustrated by the mainstream media, have little patience for campus reporters

The story seemed to have "college-press award" written all over it.

For several years, a financial-aid crisis had plagued Clark Atlanta University. In 1997, the U.S. Department of Education discovered that students' records were missing or incomplete. Last spring, students held demonstrations to protest delays in receiving their loan money. And last fall, a former administrator sued the

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