STATE BD. FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES v. OLSON

No. 82SC271.

687 P.2d 429 (1984)

The STATE BOARD FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION and Ellin Mrachek, Angelo M. Daurio, Stephen J. DeJong, Ross Forney, Thomas T. Grimshaw, Richard O. Jones, Gwendolyn A. Thomas, Fred W. Valdez, Jr., Kirk Wagner, Members of The State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education; The Pikes Peak Community College Council and Norman Pledger, Betty Diatt, Mildred Guy, Jerry Jones, James Lunghofer, Members of the Pikes Peak Community College Council; The Pikes Peak Community College Student Senate and Jeff Johnson, Carl Davis, Jane Wertz, Pam Shaver, Cheryl Shaver, Cathy Shaver, Fred Skinner, Alvin Wilson, Dee Steinbaugh, Members of the Pikes Peak Community College Senate; and Donald W. McInnis, John Rodwick and Robert Henry, Members of the Administration of Pikes Peak Community College, Petitioners, v. Judith OLSON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

August 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Deputy Atty. Gen., Joel W. Cantrick, Sol. Gen., Jo Ann Soker, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Bruce Pech, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for petitioners.

Hobbs/Bethke & Associates, Larry F. Hobbs, P.C., William P. Bethke, Denver, for respondent.


QUINN, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in Olson v. State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, 652 P.2d 1087 (Colo.App.1982), in order to consider whether a journalism teacher who also served as faculty advisor to a student newspaper at a community college has standing to raise First Amendment challenges to the termination of funding for the newspaper. The plaintiff...

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