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BONG HiTS 4 JESUS [electronic resource] : a perfect constitutional storm in Alaska's capital / James C. Foster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, James C. (James Carl)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of speech--United States.
- Freedom of speech.
- High school students--Legal status, laws, etc--Alaska.
- High school students.
- High school students--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- High school students--Civil rights--Alaska.
- High school students--Civil rights--United States.
- City and Borough of Juneau School District--Trials, litigation, etc.
- City and Borough of Juneau School District.
- Morse, Deborah, school principal--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Morse, Deborah.
- Frederick, Joseph--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Frederick, Joseph.
- United States.
- Alaska.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Bong hits for Jesus
- Place of Publication:
- Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In January 2002, for the first time, the Olympic Torch Relay visited Alaska on its way to the Winter Games. When the relay runner and accompanying camera cars passed Juneau-Douglas High School, senior Joseph Frederick and several friends unfurled a fourteen-foot banner reading ""BONG HiTS 4 JESUS."" An in-depth look at student rights within a public high school, this book chronicles the events that followed: Frederick's suspension, the subsequent suit against the school district, and, ultimately, the escalation of a local conflict into a federal case. Brought to life through interviews with th.
- Contents:
- Harmonic convergence in Juneau : [in]famous for fifteen minutes
- The tentative tinker rule
- From black armbands to colliding tubas
- A new century, a different court
- The Ninth Circuit weighs in
- No-so-brief battles, not such odd bedfellows
- "Up in smoke at the high court"
- Five takes on a single event
- Lost opportunities and failure of imagination.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60223-090-0
- OCLC:
- 893740701
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