Wednesday, March 02, 2005
There's lots of happenings for the SUNY New Paltz Oracle. First the paper runs a story about a SUNY New Paltz and New Paltz High School coach who was charged with third-degree rape and endangering the welfare of a child. The story ran on the cover with the headline "Coach Charged With Rape." A track team member allegedly stole 2,500 of the 3,500 Feb. 10 issues in which that story ran.
And the reaction from students? "Most students are too apathetic to even care about the First Amendment," said Daniel Burke, a student and the paper's managing editor. "Most of them don't even practice it."
It used to be that the mass theft of a college newspaper was something seen two or three times a year, said Mike Hiestand, a lawyer and legal consultant with the Student Press Law Center. Now it happens 25 to 30 times a year, he said. Then the paper's computers go down and are deemed beyond repair, and since the student government wouldn't part with the funds for upgrades, the paper's editor in chief decided to cancel two issues and use the money normally earmarked for printing and other costs for the new equipment.
(Via Romenesko.)
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