A former Indiana University student newspaper adviser is suing the school, claiming he was fired for refusing to censor student journalists.
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A faculty adviser for Indiana University's student newspaper has filed a federal lawsuit over his firing. Jim Rodenbush filed a complaint in U.S. District Court on Thursday. He says his constitutional rights to free speech and due process were violated when he was dismissed Oct. 14 for refusing a directive to ensure no hard news was published in the paper's homecoming edition. The complaint says Rodenbush was ordered to “censor student work in the campus newspaper and print only fluff pieces about the upcoming homecoming festivities.” The university had canceled future print editions of the heavily subsidized newspaper. The chancellor announced Thursday that he was allowing them to print through the end of the school year.
A lawyer for the adviser, Jim Rodenbush, said it's a case seeking “to have a court state that the First Amendment still matters.”
A faculty adviser for Indiana University's student newspaper filed a federal lawsuit Thursda…
