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Article: Ruling Not Stopping the Presses; Editors Doubt High Court Decision Will Repress School Papers
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- The Washington Post
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- January 28, 1988
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Next week, students at Bethesda's Walt Whitman High School will
open up the latest edition of their newspaper, The Black and White,
to read about the emotional and psychological effects of abortion.
It is a subject the paper approached by interviewing seven Whitman
students who terminated pregnancies and speaking to their boyfriends,
counselors and psychologists.
"We are willing to cover any topics that are going to affect
teen-agers, even sensitive topics," such as drug use and gambling
among young people, said Black and White editor Andrew Wilcox, 17.
"We have a right to run stories on these issues because they are
issues in high school students' lives, and that's who we're aimed
at."
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