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III. Authority

In addition to the powers necessary to fulfill its purposes, the Media Board shall have the authority to solicit and 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 order 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 six of the seven members of the Media Board.