The former director of student media who was fired as the adviser of Indiana University's student newspaper has filed a lawsuit against the school alleging it violated his constitutional rights following an ongoing censorship dispute.

Jim Rodenbush filed the lawsuit Thursday, just more than two weeks after the university terminated him from the Indiana Daily Student (IDS) newspaper Oct. 14.

The lawsuit accuses the university of violating Rodenbush's First and 14th Amendment rights.

"Freedom of the press and academic freedom are sacrosanct in the American imagination," he said in the lawsuit.

The university fired him "in a direct assault on the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment" because he "refused the directive to censor student work," Rodenbush alleges.

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