Pitt Takes Case To Supreme Court
By Barbara Gertzen
Capital Times Assistant News Editor
When Matthew McKeown began his
tenure as editor of The Capital Times in
1999, he enthusiastically contacted local
establishments to sell advertising
space. Local bars informedpapers.
McKeown that publicizing the sale The " law challenges the The state Liquor Control
of alcoholic beverages in college . Board sees the law as a means
newspapers is prohibited by the First Amendment guarantee of combating underage drink-
Pennsylvania Liquor Control ing, but Rehan Nasir, editor in
Board. of freedom of the press. chief of The Pitt News, con
tends it challenges the First
Amendment guarantee of freedom of the
press. Nasir points out that several adver
tisers in The Pitt News prior to passage of
the law in 1996, withdrew their ads when
the law took effect in 1997. The Pitt News
is funded entirely by advertiging revenue;
the university only provides office space
This little-known portion of
the Liquor Code has recently reached the
national foreground. The U.S. Supreme
Court is currently considering whether to
hear a lawsuit brought by The Pitt News,
the student newspaper of the University of
Pittsburgh, contesting a Pennsylvania law
that restricts advertising in campus
publications.
Outcome Could Impact The Capital Times
The lawsuit, filed in 1998 by the
American Civil Liberties Union on behalf
of The Pitt News, challenges a state law
that bans beer, liquor and bar ads in stu
dent newspapers. Editors of the paper con
tend the law unfairly limits their advertis
ers and deprives them of thousands of
advertising dollars each year.
Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board
Act 199 of .1996 rewrote sections of the
state's code, imposing regulations on
advertising of alcoholic beverages. Ads
that indicate the availability and/or prices
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The Student Voice of Penn State Harrisburg
Ready Or Not
Finals Start Next Week
The unmistakable signs are everywhere. Deadlines loom large. The pace quickens.
Noses dig deeper into books. Nerves teeter on the edge. The computer lab and library
bustle. One week of classes to go, then it's finals time at PSH. Capital 'limes photog
rapher Steven Shearer caught Kevin J. Kapp reading the final chapter for SOC 463 in
the Olmsted lobby and members of Dr. Dorothy King's Gender in Theater class (from
• left to right: Stefano Palazzo, Mark Messner, Daryla Campbell and Lori Conrad)
rehearsing for their final staged reading in the auditorium.
of alcoholic beverages in publications
published by, for and on behalf of any
educational institution are prohibited. The
law covers college booklets, yearbooks,
magazines, brochures and circulars, along
with student-produced news-
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By Steven E. Moses
Capital Times Staff Writer
Last month, the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers held a fund
raiser to support the son of a recent grad
uate of the electrical engineering program.
Five weeks after graduation, Kevin
Langsdale died suddenly of a brain
aneurysm. Kevin is survived by his 20-
month-old son, Brandon, and his wife,
Paula. Students sold turkey, ham and
Italian subs from Rock's in
Hummelstown.
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