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REPROGRAPHICS
UNIVERSITY OF KY. ;
211 KING LIBRARY SOUTH *
l I LEXINGTON KY 40505.0(} ;
Volume 70, Number 10 - October, 1999 I I es S .
' PUBLISHED AS A MEMBER SERVICE OF THE KENTUCKY PRESS ASSOCIATION AND KENTUCKY PRESS SERVICE I. "
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The Franklin Circuit Court has The Division determined “MK. {magi-32g ‘ ~
ruled against Landmark that Faulkner and Warner, "I .1 .I.. egggémﬁééﬁ: TMJII
Community Newspapers Inc. along with 21 other workers, 1 ﬁgﬂ .15; -
’ (LCNI) in the company’s ﬁght were employees of the newspa- . aiﬂhﬁw i 1. '
against a Kentucky Unemployment per for purposes of unemploy- Am j " Va?” ‘ sf;i"...:.:.
Commission decision that newspa- ment insurance. Engages .9: "fsa;” '
per carriers and drivers are “Landmark Community ””“rv’t I
employees eligible for unemploy- Newspapers and The Kentucky ,.,..--...-;. I ~ "
ment insurance beneﬁts. Standard are appealing this rul- ' ' , ﬂ,
Judge William H. Graham ing because we think it's an ‘ ' ii"
' made the ruling Sept. 3. important issue for our industry
Landmark ﬁled its appeal with and potentially for all Kentucky : g
the Kentucky Court of Appeals on papers using carriers,” said ,,//
Sept. 24. Kentucky Standard Publisher ‘
' The lawsuit stems from a David Greer. ; /
claim ﬁled by two former newspa- “This issue has gone before i ' ‘
' per carriers for The Kentucky the courts in several other states //-—\
Standard in Bardstown, Leonard with some courts ruling in favor - \~
Faulkner and Ronald Warner. of carriers but in several cases, ;,
After losing their jobs in 1996 according to information I've .
with LCNI (The Standard’s par- seen, the courts have ruled in
ent company), the two ﬁled for favor of the newspapers and
' unemployment insurance beneﬁts afﬁrmed that carriers are indeed
. e and an auditor with the Division
’ for Unemployment Insurance was See CARRIERS, page 14
Libby Fraas was one of the presenters at the recent high school jour- ‘ ‘
' , Th b nalism workshop held at Eastern Kentucky University. Over 400 stu-
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V ' . ~ _ High School Journalism Association. Fraas is a member of the journal-
' ' ‘ ° ism faculty at EKU and adviser of the university’s student newspaper,
- 616(3th 111 The Eastern Progress. .
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, , ' ‘ Dlstnct 14 KSU case a setback for free .~ /
' . ; ,- David Thornberry, publisher of . . .
- p. ' ._ _ ;,,j ' 3;. > _ the Somerset Commonwealth- h 11 b1
, 1.; p ,_ , , . '_ ﬂ * Journal, has been elected to repre- Spéec 1n CO ege pu lcatlons
I ' I ' ' I H Service Board of Directors. KPA News Bureau [£352 ("elm ( ourt .Of APP““.’-". .m. ‘
' V . ~ ‘ T " 1‘ . The special election was held The .Fll‘St Amendment took a (.‘incmnati ruled 2-1 in favor of RSI
“ ‘ . . .. ‘. 1‘ to ﬁll the vacancy created when beating in a federal appeals court and against two ‘former students.
I l .13 . . . ' . Stuart Simpson resigned after ruling that upheld the conﬁscation Capri ( offer and ( harles blnt‘tl‘ltl. «
g ' ‘ ‘ ' ' ' accepting a teaching position at of yearbooks at Kentucky State The students took action after ii _
. ' ' ‘1 ' ' :5 Somerset Technical College. UniverSity. . ‘ lawsuit and a petition for an injunc-
. 4V . .3. .. Thornberry will complete the The dec1s10n has outraged free- tionthat woluld‘have forced the uni~
" I. = ' unexpired term until January speech advocates and sent a chill vers1ty to distribute the yearbooks.
‘- 2001 when a new three-year term through college adVisers who fear ﬁled by then-publications adviser
-‘ . ,- on the board begins the deCIs10n has extended the court- Laura ( ullen. were dismissed. .
. ‘ . . g ' p 7 _ ' given right of censorship of high (‘offer was the editor of the )ear-
1 _ . ;.;~ 3 See THORNBERRY, page 14 SChOO' Pap“q t0 00110;!“ PUNICHUOHR See KSU. page 16
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