A faculty adviser to the student newspaper at Loyola College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in Maryland, encountered difficulties concerning First Amendment rights. Previous efforts to establish guidelines for the student press by factions in the administration had failed, and the student newspaper has been able to solidify its First Amendment position with the help of the faculty and the Writing/Media Department. In this process the student press had to fend off challenges for control from student government, threats of economic censorship, and other assaults that paid no heed to judicial precedents. Internal fiscal malfeasance by some of the editors and a failure of the fiscal oversight responsibility of the student government also threatened the paper's existence. Through a series of events, which included setting up a new student newspaper in the Writing and Media Department and not seeking a direct budget allocation from student government, the paper has begun a process of extricating its fiscal control from the student government. In the paper's fight against censorship and for academic freedom, the student journalists, who worked with the faculty adviser to effect change, have liberated the student newspaper from improper constraints--and did so within the established governance procedures. (MS)