You say this is a lib paper?Perhaps it is more precisely a moderate outpost on a liberal CAMPUS.
(They call themselves a "conservative newspaper" in "liberal Madison." - see post #86 of this thread.)The Badger Herald hosted a fundraiser in 1971 with William F. Buckley, and in 2001, printed David Horowitz's editorial against slavery reparations. These are not the actions of a traditionally liberal college newspaper.
About the time you see a ray of sunlight, a pigeon shits in your eye.