Monday, February 22, 1999
Appeals court upholds Virginia restrictions on Internet use

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently ruled that a Virginia law prohibiting the use of state-owned computers to view sexually explicit material does not violate the First Amendment.
The law, which took effect in July 1996, prohibits state employees from using state computers to “access, download, print or store any information infrastructure files or services having sexually explicit content.”
The law had been challenged by six college and university professors who argued that their research sometimes required them to look up online material that could be considered explicit.

Proposed bill would give D.C. students nationwide tuition cut

Congressman Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) recently announced plans to introduce a bill which would provide Washington, D.C., students with in-state tuition rates at any state university in the United States.
If the proposal is passed into law, the federal government will fund the difference between out-of-state and in-state tuition at any state school.

Group’s handbook to help colleges avoid affirmative action lawsuits

The Center for Individual Rights, a non-profit legal firm which has sued colleges over race-based admissions policies--the same group which won the well-known Hopwood case in 1996 against the University of Texas--has recently released a handbook designed to help colleges and universities avoid litigation.
The guidebook urges trustees to study federal court decisions on affirmative action and to end campus policies that use preferences to increase racial diversity.
The document is seen by many as a response to the book The Shape of the River, which was published by the former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities in September and which asserts that race-conscious admissions policies were critical to increasing diversity on campus.
--Matthew Winston
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