In solidarity with The Playwickian's adviser, who was suspended for two days without pay, and the newspaper's student editor, who was removed from the position for a month, student journalists in Ventura, Calif., launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign. Photo by The Foothill Dragon Press

By: Anna Schiffbauer of the Student Press Law Center

Amid a months-long battle with administrators for editorial control — sparked by the student staff’s attempt to ban the word “Redskins” from the newspaper’s pages — The Playwickian’s faculty adviser was suspended for two days this week.

Additionally, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Gillian McGoldrick, received a one-month suspension from her position, ending at the end of September.

Robert Copeland, the superintendent of Neshaminy School District in Pennsylvania, suspended adviser Tara Huber on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Maddy Buffardi, the newspaper’s opinion editor. Huber, who won the Pennsylvania School Press Association’s Journalism Teacher of the Year award this year, is an English teacher and adviser to the student newspaper at Neshaminy High School in Langhorne.

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