The U of I student paper suffers from a lack of advertising and, so, heavily relies on money provided by the University. Turns out the University has strings attached to its money.
In the case of U of I, the University doesn’t want the student newspaper to interfere with what is really important on campus nowadays, which is football. The homecoming edition is supposed to be all positive, feel good stuff, not anything controversial, and not any news.
“somebody has to stand up”
When you take somebody’s money they own you.
You only get to stand up when they tell you to stand up....
Printing a special homecoming edition would have prevented this excitement. The regular edition is probably a Propaganda Paper which is only read for police beat and the crossword puzzle.
Apparently, the president of the university has been cracking down on Palestinian protesters. The leftists are sad that they can’t publish stories favorable to their protesters.
Dear Student activist, you can print anything you like but do not use University facilities, paper, press or personnel. These do not belong to you.
The University is the publisher of the newspaper, and as such has editorial control over the content. It is no difference then how every other newspaper is managed. The “reporters” don’t get to decide content, the publisher sets the guideline, the editors enforce the guidelines.
Has anyone actually read the article(s) the paper was going to publish?
So they probably got the word to table the usual leftist screed just for the weekend.
And this is maybe the second Homecoming in about a century where the alumni are excited and feeling generous.
But no, they insisted on playing the persecuted journalists' card.
It's a tempest in a teapot.
Wonderful paper! Someone should have played the Ernie Pyle card. No one has yet.
EP was the Editor-in-Chief back in the day before he was a war correspondent.
The University of Georgia paper moved off campus in the previous century. Even a couple of decades before that Emory had 3 campus papers, at least 2 of them independent.
In any event, print is largely dead, and online isn’t that hard to set up. The Atlanta paper is going to shut down its print editions shortly. https://www.ajc.com/business/2025/08/ajc-to-move-to-fully-digital-publication-phase-out-print-dec-31/
Government subsidized student newspapers (not event bulletin boards) are leftist breeding grounds. Eliminate them, and let students pay for whatever slant they want.
If MCuban is against it, that means it is a good thing. HE is a TWOT.
Well the Hoosier football team should be moving up to #2 after Miami’s dud.
This is hysterical and ridiculous. Publications have a right to an editorial policy. If the editor-in-chief wanted them to include an article entitled "Jesus is Lord," you wouldn't hear these babies crying about free speech.