By Jill Heffner

COLUMBIA, SC - Leaders of the nation's largest journalism education group this week sharply criticized a federal appeals court decision upholding the censorship of the student yearbook at Kentucky State University.

The president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver of Florida International University, said Wednesday that the 6th U.S. Circuit Court ruling represents "a dangerous precedent that threatens the First Amendment rights of university and college student journalists and writers nationwide."

Kopenhaver, who heads an organization of some 3,300 journalism professors at more than 350 college and universities, warned that the Sept. 8 ruling in the Kincaifd v. Gibson case, upholding the censorship and confiscation of the KSU yearbook, could roll back more than 30 years of court protection for free expression in the student press. Kopenhaver predicted an appeal of the Kincaid decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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