[sistergoldenhair]

Initial praise turns to punishment.

[BenLurkin]

Good grief!

These kids should be heroes for showing the courage.

[Dog Gone]

Good to see that the sissy pantywaists at an American university won out as expected. I hate surprises.

[OldFriend]

If only they had shown cartoons showing our President or Vice President in a negative light. That would have been quite acceptable.

[starbase]

Here are their polished reasons for suspending them:

The editorial said that the two editors did not consult the editorial board, the editorial adviser or the publisher of the paper in their decision, which it characterized as the "the callous bravado of a renegade editor in chief."

"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.

So the real reason is personal fear at engaging in free speech.

[Tzimisce]

More open minded tolerance and acceptance from our friends on the American left.

Think this university will win an award for freedom of the press?

[Tzimisce]

More open minded tolerance and acceptance from our friends on the American left.

Think this university will win an award for freedom of the press?

[Graybeard58]

Second ping to the same story. Are you getting this or are you one of the suspended students.

[Lee N. Field]

Back in the day, we called the Daily Illini the Daily Idiot.

[gaijin]

Multiculturalists: Married, Nascar-watching men are to be derided as RAPISTS, while musclim clitorectomists require PROTECTION.

Is yer head spinnin' yet?

[gaijin]

Most members of the newspaper staff have been angry with him, he said, telling him he didn't take their safety into account.

There was a day that journalists rallied to notion that the debate over free-speech STARTED a talk over what words are truly offensive.

Now they simply rally for their a$$es to be protected...!

And they wonder why the major dailies are going extinct...?

[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.