Guidelines & Requirements
for student publications
Student publications is an instructional tool
of North Lake College and should protect the basic
principle of a free press by striving at all times
to be a responsible member of the press.
Student publications should serve as a form of
communications for the campus by including news
about students, instruction, student services,
business services and campus activities.
Taking into consideration that the community
college audience is very complex with varied interest,
student publications should include, as space
permits, news about local, state, national and
international events and issues.
Student publications should encourage comments
from its audience by providing a reasonable amount
of space to voice opinions for people who do not
work on the publication‘s staff. Editorials
and opinions originated by the publication’s
staff should be labeled as such or published under
the writer’s byline.
Staff members of student publications should
strive for impartiality in the news column, always
attempting to obtain comments from all sides on
an issue and explaining if one side could not
be contacted.
The student publication’s faculty advisor
has final responsibility for reviewing the content
of the publication. He or she will advise the
staff in regard to material that is incorrect
or incomplete, without news value, poorly written,
irrelevant, in poor taste, potentially libelous
or material that incites violence or lawlessness
or materially or substantially interferes with
the requirements of appropriate discipline in
the operation of the college. Contributions should
not be edited except for libelous content and
obvious error, and when space dictates, length.
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