The following is a petition written over 36 years ago by University of Colorado students to the seven members of Colorado's delegation to the United States Congress. I was advisor to the student groups and found this when cleaning up my university office. It strikes me as being amazingly farsighted.

Each semester, undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs produce quality research papers that seldom reach audiences beyond their professors or classrooms. In 2008, Kraemer Family Library launched an open access undergraduate research journal on a trial basis to give faculty a mechanism for highlighting excellent…

Summarizes some of the advantages and disadvantages in store for the college journalism student covering the state capitol beat. (RB)

A study explored, through a review of the literature, specific problems that scholars have identified regarding free expression in student publications since "Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier" (1988). It then analyzed the six state statutes which were passed to clarify the extent of school administrators' rights to censor student journalism and…

A description of Project Preserve, a Colorado high school living history course which provides students with tools to find their roots and understand themselves and their futures, presents a history of the project; details the formation of goals, objectives, and philosophy; and notes the advantages to both students and community. (SB)