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Monday, September 24, 2007

This is what passes off as 'higher education'

The short news item below moved today on The Associated Press wire. It's another example of the next generation of brainwashed liberals coming out of our colleges and universities ... Can you blame these misinformed kids when they have teachers like Ward Churchill?

Liberals can't make convincing arguments for their cause, so they resort to this. It's sad. It also helps explain how so many people with far left beliefs end up running newspapers or television stations in this country.


Colo. State U. paper's student editor says he won't quit over Bush editorial obscenity

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The editor of the Colorado State University newspaper says he has no plans to resign amid criticism about an obscenity used in an editorial about President Bush.

The four-word editorial, published Friday in the Rocky Mountain Collegian, said in large type, "Taser this. (Expletive) Bush."

J. David McSwane, the Collegian's editor-in-chief and a CSU junior, said the newspaper's governing board may fire him but he won't voluntarily step down.

"I think that'd be an insult to the staff who supported the editorial," McSwane told the Fort Collins Coloradoan in Monday's editions.

The newspaper's business manager has said the operation lost $30,000 in advertising in the hours after the editorial was published, and that the pay of student staffers would be cut 10 percent to compensate.

McSwane said the newspaper's student editors decided to use the obscenity because they believe CSU students are apathetic about their freedom of speech and other rights.

"We thought the best way to illustrate that point was to use our freedoms," he said.

The editors chose not to seek advice from the newspaper's professional advisers to protect them from the controversy they knew the editorial would cause, McSwane said.

"We didn't want any kind of action taken against them by the university," he said.

The Board of Student Communication, which oversees the Collegian and other student media at the university, plans to discuss the editorial when it meets Tuesday night.

1 comment:

sleeplessmind said...

You say liberals cannot present a valid case, when i say the "burden of proof" lies with the staunch republicans and your cronies. YOUR commander-n-thief took us to war only to have the rest of the world shake their head in disgust and shame at the debacle.
The common man is no longer in your corner. He knows practically everything to come from the proverbial mouth of the white house has been a lie, and he no longer wants to pave the road to excess with the flesh of innocents.

i understand the common man may not be in my corner, but now, he is standing a helluva lot closer to me than you...