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TUCKED on a back page of a recent Sunday Gazette-Mail was a minor story about a high school principal in North Carolina. He ordered the student newspaper to remove an editorial, and said he will review future issues of the paper at Southern High School in Durham.
The student-written editorial suggested that the school's homecoming adviser should not have helped count votes for homecoming queen because the adviser's niece was a contestant. The niece won.
"The purpose of the newspaper is to encourage, not to put people down," the principal protested. He said the student editorial was poorly researched. Fair enough. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled...