Yes, they certainly would, as long as the Black person they are attacking is Condi Rice.
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Posted on 12/09/2004 6:17:09 AM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
The University of Illinois' student newspaper, the Daily Illini, is in hot water with the chancellor over what he says is a series of items offensive to Jews in the last two years.
Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Richard Herman is demanding staff journalists undergo better training and do more to fight error. If they don't, he threatens to start a newspaper to compete with the campus paper, which is financially independent from the university.
"Seeing a newspaper intentionally or otherwise continue to spew out what is broadly seen as anti-Semitic comments is just not appropriate,'' Herman said this week.
Quote published twice
Despite the paper's status as a private business, the university repeatedly hears complaints about it from alumni and outside groups. The latest furor erupted after the newspaper published a letter to the editor last month in which a student claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon once said he wanted to "burn every Palestinian child.'' Although the quote has been widely disseminated, Jewish groups say there is no evidence Sharon ever made the statement.
Wednesday, the paper's editors apologized for running the "inaccurate information.''
What's most disturbing, some said, is the same quote appeared in an opinion piece by student columnist Mariam Sobh last year. In the spring, Sobh admitted the quote was false and apologized.
"They should make sure their editors are paying more attention to recent history so they don't repeat mistakes every semester,'' said Joel Schwitzer, director of the campus Hillel Foundation.
Use of 'vile' letter defended
In addition, earlier this semester, the paper published a cartoon that joked about big-nosed Jewish bankers. The cartoonist recently returned to the staff after a one-month suspension.
Two years ago, the paper published another letter, titled, "Jews manipulate America.'' At the time, the paper's editors vigorously defended their right to publish even though they found it "vile.''
Herman said too many people think the school runs the paper.
University students are on its staff and serve on its oversight board along with university workers. The school allows distribution in campus dorms and other places.
Specific training for staff should cover better fact-checking along with sensitivity, Herman said.
In a meeting last week with Daily Illini publisher Mary Cory, a professional employee, Herman threatened to fund an alternative paper or help others who want to distribute on campus.
Outgoing Daily Illini editor Evan McLaughlin, of Palatine, admitted "it looks as if there is a pattern'' of anti-Semitism at the paper, but he denied the paper had an agenda. He said the incidents were separate mistakes. Since publication of the letter two years ago, the staff does more fact-checking and takes more steps to verify letter writers' identities.
McLaughlin is working to ensure the paper's "institutional memory'' is passed down through training manuals to future editors to avoid past mistakes.
Quickest way to impress your leftist friends and classmates - hate a Jew.
Oh, yeah they just didn't get their "facts" straight. Here is a fact- Leftist media LIE as a matter of course. Student newspapers are the worst of the lot with little sanity and lots of hatred.
At my college, there were 3 or 4 papers. One was the official school paper, funded by the school but staffed by students. Another was completely independent of the school and covered performing and fine arts; they pretty much stayed away from politics. There was also one that was of a conservative bent, also independent. The school pretty much allowed any paper to be distributed on campus; I imagine they had standards, but I never saw anything that was a problem.
I wonder if they would do the same thing if someone gave them a cartoon attacking black people in similar fashion? Somehow I doubt it. It's not politically correct to mock blacks, but it's becoming politically correct to mock Jews.
Leftist intellectuals still fear being called antisemitic. But it's hard to know what else to call it. Anti-Israelism is often just a euphemism. The source of this bigotry is obvious enough. They have sucked up the propaganda emanating from Islamo-communist theorists from Egypt and Palestine. Edward Said was one of them.
I think the biggest problem is that the 'Illini' in the paper's name strongly implies that it is of the school. The school should defend its trademarked name and force the paper to change its name.
Oh, right. Just a series of separate 'mistakes' attacking one specific ethnic group. Julius Streicher had the same problem in publishing his newspaper.
Yes, they certainly would, as long as the Black person they are attacking is Condi Rice.
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The University of Illinois' student newspaper, the Daily Illini, is in hot water with the chancellor over what he says is a series of items offensive to Jews in the last two years.
TWO YEARS! A sad and telling comment on college campuses today.
The school pretty much allowed any paper to be distributed on campus;
RADICAL CONCEPT ALERT!!!
But wouldn't that mean someone's self-esteem might be damaged? Or their constitutional right to not be offended be abridged?
MIT has gotten more PC than it was when I was there, but they still don't think that people have a right to not be offended, on either side of the aisle.
Doesn't Chomsky teach there?
NO
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