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The following comes via the “Community List” of Activist Attorney Ronald B. McGuire regarding a federal court ruling against a former President of City College who had the temerity to violate First Amendment rights of a student editor.

 
Tuesday, November 25, 11:42:27 EST 2008
Youngbloods, Elders and Friends:

After nearly eleven years of litigation, a federal judge has finally held that former City College President Yolanda T. Moses violated the First Amendment rights of the editor of a student newspaper and candidates for positions on a college student government when President Moses nullified the result sof a student government election because she concluded that a special election edition of a student newspaper was a student activity fee funded piece of campaign literature that unfairly favored a slate of candidates running in the student government election.

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By Jonathan Mena, Senior Producer-Editor

CUNY narrowly dodged a bullet yesterday as Governor Patterson postponed his mid year budget cuts opting to wait until December 16 to submit his final budget. For now CUNY will not raise tuition for the upcoming spring semester that starts in January.

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