the faculty advisor considerably greater power to edit or remove objectionable material. The Tattler student editors believed that these guidelines violated First Amendment rights, and were angered that they had transferred power from what had been a primarily student-run organization to the school administration. In the February 2005 issue, The Tattler's faculty advisor, Stephenie Vinch, found a sexually explicit cartoon in the issue offensive and insisted that it be removed. The student editors refused to allow a "censored" version of the issue to be published, and appealed the decision to IHS principal Joe Wilson and ICSD superintendent Judith Pastel. Both Wilson and Pastel ultimately rejected the appeals, also finding the cartoon obscene. In the midst of the controversy, Vinch resigned her position as faculty advisor, and school publication of The Tattler ground to a halt. At one point principal Wilson ordered The Tattler office closed. Publication of The Tattler went underground, running out of editor-in-chief Rob Ochshorn's house. The student staff produced a complete underground March issue, which the high school administration denied permission to distribute on school grounds because it contained the same cartoon that was earlier deemed obscene. Two further underground issues, in April and May, were also completed and were given approval to be distributed on school grounds. Meanwhile, nationally renowned IHS mathematics and computer science teacher Roselyn Teukolsky was named interim faculty advisor for The Tattler. The student staff worked under Teukolsky's supervision to produce the June 2005 issue back on school grounds. Later that month, the student editors announced that they were suing the Ithaca City School District, Superintendent Pastel, Principal Wilson, and Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Bill Russell. The suit alleges that the school district violated the student editors’ First Amendment freedom of the press rights by instituting a policy of prior restraint. The suit seeks that the school district guidelines for the Tattler be declared unconstitutional, and that the district be prevented from enforcing these or any similar guidelines. Some believe this to be a case of inappropriate censorship, violating freedom of the press, and see the school district as guilty of unconstitutionally censoring dissenting and controversial material. Others believe the school district is within their constitutional authority, taking appropriate action to prevent obscene and detrimental material from being distributed to the student body. The two Supreme Court cases which govern this area of the law, Tinker vs. Des Moines (1969)