Thursday, March 10, 2005
The Arizona Daily Wildcat notes that the Arizona state legislature has left no state funding for student newspapers.
Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, said in a meeting Tuesday that this note on the proposed House budget was a result of "sex surveys" and other things in student newspapers, which he said he did not think the state should be funding. An Arizona State University newspaper had problems with its administration last year.
The State Press faced criticism last semester when it published a nearly full-page photo of a woman's bare breast with a pierced nipple for a feature in its weekly arts section, State Press Magazine.
ASU President Michael Crow threatened to stop funding the newspaper after a major university donor alerted Crow of his disgust with the editorial decision to run the photo, and threatened to stop donating to the university.
Arizona Daily Wildcat Editor in Chief Brett Fera questioned the timing of the proposal.
"It seems coincidental with everything we saw last semester with Crow potentially wanting to censor The State Press," Fera said. Hopefully the Arizona student newspapers continue with this story.
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