The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether advertisers can place alcohol-related ads in the Collegiate Times and The Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s newspaper.
The decision will determine if the publications fall under an Alcoholic Beverage Control regulation, which bans alcohol-related ads from college newspapers. If the courts decide the CT and The Cavalier Daily do not fall under the rule’s three-pronged definition of a college newspaper, then they will be exempt from the law.
The law partially defines a college student publication as one that is “distributed or intended to be distributed primarily to persons under 21 years of age.”
“There’s a wide readership of the Collegiate Times, and while some undergrads are not 21, there is a large readership that’s over 21,” said Kelly Wolff, the general manager of Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech, the CT’s parent company.
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