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Illiberal Arts: Campus Censorship |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Virginia Lam |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,248 Words, 14,946 Characters |
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First Amendment rights are under attack in a campaign of censorship that appears to be gaining momentum across college campuses nationwide.
The target: student newspapers that occasionally or often take un-politically correct positions. The usual method: stealing, vandalizing, or publicly burning papers. The motive: to dominate the public opinion arena and suppress an opposing voice.
“It’s wrong to burn other people’s words,” says Richard Schwarzlose, professor of journalism at Northwestern University.
TO Schwarzlose, the theft and torching of newspapers as a means of student protest is wrong and a sad reminder of the days when Hitler set fire to thousands of books during World War II. Rather than censorship, “free speech is the way to solve [problems on campusi,” he says.
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...ced to community service.
“I think the administration was very evenhanded,” he says.
Overall, Agin says that the student body and administration supported the Kernel’s right to press freedom. The campus defended the principle of free speech—as shown in the prosecution of the culprits, he says.
“[The convictions] were really a vanguard—a hope for papers across the country,” says Agin.
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