Student publication guidelines

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 interests, 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 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.