WILNER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
Appellants are six young men who, in 1977, were undergraduate students at the University of Maryland (College Park Campus) and members of the University's varsity basketball team. Feeling aggrieved by articles appearing in the November 1, 1977, editions of the Washington Star and the student publication, the Diamondback, they sued the publishers of those newspapers and a number of individuals who allegedly...
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