Quill and Scroll interviews John and Mary Beth Tinker
We’ve been focusing this year on the eight guiding principles for our organization. Our initiation ceremony notes that “Friendship is the link that binds humanity.” Like Aristotle, we recognize the importance of friendship and the synergy it brings to the journalistic endeavor.
In late February, Nichole Shaw had the chance to meet with two siblings — two of scholastic journalism’s best friends, John and Mary Beth Tinker.
The names should ring a bell. The Tinkers, along with John’s friend Christopher Eckhardt, in 1965 were suspended from their Des Moines, Iowa schools because they wanted to protest the Vietnam War. They proposed wearing black armbands emblazoned with a peace symbol. With the help of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, they sued the school district. The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where in February 1969 the justices ruled in favor of the Tinkers. The “Tinker Case” has forever burned in our minds the sentence: “Students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Last month the Tinkers set out on a 50th anniversary celebration of that decision. Nichole Shaw spoke with them in the studios of KRUI, the student radio station at the University of Iowa.
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Episode 37: Students Unmute Themselves, Part Two
Episode 36: Students Unmute Themselves: Part I
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Episode 34: Ethics with Patrick Johnson, Part One
Episode 33: Covering Politics in High School and at College
Episode 32: Walker Watson and DocuFriends
Episode 31: Jack Kennedy on critiques
Episode 30: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Episode 29: JEA President Sarah Nichols
Episode 28: Scholastic Journalism Week
Episode 27: Entering the WPM Contest
Episode 26: Annie Wooden on Design
Episode 25: CNN's Erica Hernandez on pandemic coverage
Episode 24: Trevor Ivan on good journalism (no matter the medium)
Episode 23: Liz Martin on Photography
Episode 22: G. Fred Wickman on News Writing
Episode 21: Jann Nyffeler discusses covering culture
Episode 20: The Number One Lesson in Covering Politics
Episode 19: Associated Press reporter Ryan Foley
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