Student Journalists Tell a Different Story. The student press is facing a growing wave of censorship and institutional obstructionCollege newspapers like The Harvard Crimson have broken stories of national import. But increasingly, the student press is being stifled. According to reporting from Poynter, calls to the Student Press Law Center’s legal hotline rose 42 percent from the 2022–23 academic year to the 2023–24 academic year. Student journalists do vital work.