Posted on 02/21/2006 12:33:01 PM PST by SmoothTalker
"More than a dozen students marched into The Daily Tar Heel offices at UNC-Chapel Hill and plopped down on the floor to protest the newspaper's publication of an editorial cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. They said they wouldn't leave until the newspaper apologized.
"A student newspaper serves the students," Salma Mirza, a Muslim student from Buffalo, N.Y., said as she read a statement to DTH staffers. "It should not attack students under the pretense of 'promoting open dialogue.' This decision marginalized and belittled many students, and we are banding together in the fear that the precedent of this incident will lead to further attacks on the student body."
"The newspaper's editor, Ryan Tuck, said the protesters were welcome to stay in the offices as long as they did not disrupt the work of student journalists. He said he was sorry that anyone was personally offended by the cartoon, "but we will not issue an apology for its publication.""
"The sit-in followed nearly two weeks of campus debate about the cartoon, drawn by a student cartoonist and published by the newspaper Feb. 9. The Muslim Students Association immediately called for an apology and sponsored a forum last week about the issue."
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You mean, you miss Woody's pork skin commercials?
What about Beefmaster Franks?
:)
"The newspaper's editor, Ryan Tuck, said the protesters were welcome to stay in the offices as long as they did not disrupt the work of student journalists."
Wouldn't it be fun to have lunch delivered to the office? Ribs and pulled pork, of course, or if everybody was working against a deadline, maybe just some ham sandwiches and a big bag of pork rinds...
Thank you for the T.P.!
I am of the impression that any group so thin-skinned is doomed to a life of misery... after all, anyone can draw!
Oh man, I miss me some Beefmasters out here in Texas.
Seriously, though, I can't help but be reminded of the time the Carolina Review posted a picture of the Student Body President in devil horns on the front page. Wacky hijinks ensued...
Any chance we could find a link to the cartoon? I'm not having much luck at either NewsObserver.com or www.dailytarheel.com. Go figure.
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