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1969
Underground Newspaper Resulted in Free Press Case
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Barbara Papish, a 32-year-old journalism graduate student, was expelled for distributing "indecent" literature. The February 1969 issue of The Free Press Underground contained a 12-letter expletive and a cartoon of policemen raping the Statue of Liberty. In the 1973 case Papish vs. the University of Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court deemed that the expulsion violated her First Amendment rights since "the mere dissemination of ideas on a state university campus cannot be proscribed in the name of 'conventions of decency.'"
The Free Press Underground (top) controversy in 1969 led to a notable First Amendment Supreme Court case in 1973. The Missouri Alumnus magazine covered the controversy in its May 1969 issue (bottom).
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