Daily Illini suspends editors over cartoon

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ^ | 02/14/2006 | By Kavita Kumar

[MillerCreek]

(1.) if the students had been earlier advised not to run the cartoons and did so despite the (faculty/administration) directive, then the students should be punished to some degree for bypassing the directive; (2.) I think the students have the right idea, however, and if they'd been advised not to run the photos, the advice is wrong for a myriad of reasons.

However, it's a student paper and students who work on those are still required to follow the directive of the owner (and that's the institution, not the students).

This seems to be an "administration vs. student/s" issue and the students, by doing the right thing journalistically, did the wrong thing as students. My sympathies to the students....they should consider starting their own paper, independent of the school or any other.

[facedown]

bttt

[LiteKeeper]

A moment of silence, please, for the passing of the freedom of speech and press.

[Jim_Curtis]

"We want to make it clear that while we do not necessarily disagree with the decision to print these cartoons, we disagree with how they were run," the editorial said. But the real beans spill out in the second to last sentence: Most members of the newspaper staff have been angry with him, he said, telling him he didn't take their safety into account.

I've heard the saying: "I may not agree with the things you say, but I'd die for your right to say them.". The motto of these folks is "I might agree with what you say but I'll prevent you from saying it so I don't get hurt."

[El Gato]

Illinois firearms owners should establish a volunteer guard force to these kids. Probably drive Hizzoner da Mayor craxy. No telling what he might do. Although what he, or his lap dog Governor, would not do it provided effective protection for these people, nor if they can help it, allow them to defend themselves or be defended by civilian gun owners.