SPLC: Adviser back at work, plans to continue lawsuit

From the Student Press Law Center:

Adviser back at work, plans to continue lawsuit
Student editors say relationship with administration is stagnant

September 21, 2006

NEW JERSEY — Karen Bosley is back to work as the adviser of the Ocean County College Viking News after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in her pending lawsuit, and students say her return has been essential to the paper’s production.

“With no Karen Bosley we weren’t going to be here,” Viking News Editor in Chief Alberto Morales said. “We didn’t even start [planning for the newspaper] until the injunction was placed.”

Bosley was reinstated as adviser of the newspaper last month by the college’s board of trustees after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in July against the college’s attempt to remove her from the position.

The battle between the students and OCC administration began last year when three editors from the paper filed a lawsuit claiming several actions taken by the college administration, including Bosley’s removal, were a form of censorship and unconstitutional.

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