After 18 months of renovations and more than a year of planning by an advisory board of students, the club re-opened its doors last fall.
Mr. McGrath acknowledged that college policy, spelled out in a constitution, requires consultation with a media board of students, faculty and administrators before a student publication can be censored.
Ms. Baek, a member of the board of Students for Free Culture, said the comments on blogs and discussion boards she had visited since Mr. Swartz's death showed that "people aren't afraid to say this is what the injustice was".
Then Ms. Brown became the story, at least on Twitter, when Ms. Weingarten reposted a message that pointedly raised Ms. Brown's marriage to Dan Senor, who is Mitt Romney's senior foreign-affairs adviser and, more to the point, is on the board of StudentsFirstNY, an education policy group close with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Its former director, Russlynn Ali, until recently assistant secretary for civil rights in the Obama administration's Department of Education, is on the advisory board of Students Matter.
That's why I've committed to being on the board of Students Rising Above, an organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged students get a college education.
Jess also served on the board of Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) -- a national campus sexual violence prevention organization – where she coordinated teach-in workshops to mobilize student activists and their allies to fight for more inclusive policy practices.
For more than ten years, Han has played a key leadership role in the Tibetan freedom movement, serving on the staff and board of Students for a Free Tibet and on the Steering Committee of the International Tibet Support Network.
A board consisting of student body president Jake Baker and appointed administrators and students made the decision during the fall semester to award $20,000 in funding to SEAT to put on Sex Week.
Courts have concluded in many cases that sometimes school boards' regulation of student behavior outweighs individual students' right to free speech.
How could the site be improved?" After a few minutes, ask students to share their answers, and create a list on the board of what students like about the sites they chose.
