Editor Reinstated

A District of Columbia judge last week ordered Howard University to re-enroll the editor of the school's weekly newspaper. The Hilltop, after she had been expelled from the university and dismissed from her job.

Janis McKnight, a senior, was expelled from Howard after she disregarded a request by Howard President James Cheek that the newspaper not print additional articles about a discrimination charge filed against the university's general counsel.

Students protested McKnight's expulsion, claiming that the administration was trying to censor The Hilltop.

The administration maintains that McKnight was expelled because she provided "untruthful information" in her original application for admission in 1979.

Judge George Goodrich last week issued a temporary restraining order telling Howard to re-enroll McKnight pending a hearing scheduled for next week Goodrich said it was "a mighty strange coincidence that the university did not discover discrepancies in her application until The Hilltop published three stories about the discrimination charges.

McKnight has maintained that university officials denied her right to free speech and freedom of the press. The Daily Pennsylvanian, February 9