10.23.2003
Critical Mass on newspaper theft
Erin O'Connor of Critical Mass has some great comments on how universities (students and administrators) punish the student press, in response to the incident at Hampton U.:
"It's illegal to steal newspapers, and doing so shows a lamentable ignorance about the importance of a free press and the point of writing letters to the editor. But it's popular nonetheless as a swift and effective means of suppressing offensive stories and of punishing the people who write and print them. So popular has newspaper theft become, in fact, that even campus administrators are getting in on the action..."
ALSO: O'Connor is inviting folks to write about choosing colleges. People have responded here and here.
"It's illegal to steal newspapers, and doing so shows a lamentable ignorance about the importance of a free press and the point of writing letters to the editor. But it's popular nonetheless as a swift and effective means of suppressing offensive stories and of punishing the people who write and print them. So popular has newspaper theft become, in fact, that even campus administrators are getting in on the action..."
ALSO: O'Connor is inviting folks to write about choosing colleges. People have responded here and here.
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