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III. Authority

In addition to the powers necessary to fulfill its purposes, the Media Board shall have the authority to review budgets and requests for operating funds from Student Media organizations subject to its jurisdiction, which do not take part in the Student Council allocation procedures, and to make recommendations to the Student Activities Committee for final consideration and action.

The Media Board shall also have the authority to receive complaints, to make such investigations as may be necessary, to conduct hearings to determine the validity of complaints, to make determinations as to what, if any, corrective action is required, and to implement such corrective action.

In the implementation of corrective action the Media Board may establish general policies; it shall not engage in censorship (i.e., prior restraint), and it shall not recommend the publication or broadcast of specific information except:

• (1) in the case of public censure,
• (2) as may be necessary to correct factual errors in previously published or broadcast information, and
• (3) notices of public meetings of the Media Board.

In the enforcement of its directives the Media Board shall be limited to the following actions against the officers and members of the managing boards of student media organizations under its supervision:

• (1) Private censure and public censure published by all student news media, both actions determined by a majority vote of the membership of the Media Board;
• (2) Removal from position, determined by a vote of nine of the fourteen members of the Media Board.