Neshaminy journalists to be honored by ACLU

BUCKS COUNTY

High school journalists to be honored by ACLU

LANGHORNE Members of the Neshaminy High School student newspaper's editorial board will be honored by the American Civil Liberties

Union of Pennsylvania next month for fighting - unsuccessfully - to ban

the word Redskin from the paper.

The group will be one of four Civil Libertarian Award winners at a dinner at the National Museum of American Jewish History

on Oct. 8, according to the ACLU.

Other honorees include clients in the suit that led

to the legalization of

same-sex marriage, and an organization that fought to block the state's voter identification law.

Members of Neshaminy's editorial board voted last October to stop using Redskin, the name of the school mascot, in all stories and advertisements in the paper because they felt it was racially insensitive.

A lengthy dispute with district administrators

ensued. Ultimately, the

school board voted in June to allow students to remove Redskin from news stories but not editorials or opinion columns.

- Chris Palmer