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The tobacco industry has begun to advertise Copenhagen and Rooster smokeless tobacco in college newspapers, breaking its self-imposed ban on advertising in these publications. The move has resulted in much controversy, with anti-smoking groups becoming angry and pro-smoking groups supporting the decision. The tobacco industry has defined the college group as adults, which justifies the decision to advertise., Ending self-imposed ban on ads in college newspapers, U.S. Tobacco Co. ignites controversy with ad campaign in college press THE U.S. TOBACCO Co. has ended the tobacco industry's self-imposed blackout [...]

African American courtroom spectators have refused to speak to the mainstream press about a $150 million defamation case they are monitoring. The suit was filed by a Caucasian assistant attorney general against three black activists who have accused him of participating in the abduction and sexual assault of an African American high school student. The spectators are claiming the mainstream press was part of the coverup that exonerated the attorney general., THE 20 African-American faces along the courthouse wall were waiting patiently to reclaim their seats when they spotted some reporters strolling through the front door. 'Here come the manipulators,' jeered [...]

Several unions, religious groups and colleges accuse Nike and other US manufacturers of utilizing sweatshop conditions in their Asian plants. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Daily Tar Heel editor Erica Beshears has been offered a $15,000-Nike-financed trip to investigate the conditions in these factories. There is concern about the ethics of accepting the money for this investigation even though the university, which also has a $7.1 million cash-and-clothes contract with Nike, could not afford it.

A Vanity Fair article alleging that New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani had marital problems, and an affair with his communications director, Cristyne Lategano, prompted self-examination within the city's media corps. New York Times metro editor Joyce Purnick noted that the article, written by Jennet Conant, contained no facts that were attributable or on record. For the most part, the news media dismissed the story after about 10 days., JENNET CONANT AND Bob Woodward were at an East Hampton, N.Y., dinner party last summer for former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee when the conversation turned to her Vanity Fair [...]

A cheating scandal involving journalism students at San Diego State University has resulted in accusations against the teacher who exposed the cheating as well as the student paper that ran editorials about it. The University concluded that at least six students in Dianne Bartlow's Public Affairs Reporting class had faked interviews for an assignment. The Daily Aztec student paper ran editorials critical of Bartlow, despite the fact that several of her students were on the staff., The assignment was simple: produce an audio package of interviews with area news makers that could be submitted to KCR-AM, the campus radio station. Dianne Bartlow, a part-time lecturer at [...]

Determining whether author James Sanders should be defined as a journalist or a source for his research into the TWA Flight 800 story has important implications concerning the legality of his grand jury subpoena. The grand jury trial may have violated Department of Justice guidelines if Sanders falls under the legal distinction of 'news gatherer.' The constitution grants special legal protection to journalists, which allows for freedom of the press as well as thorough investigations and news reporting., Department of Justice guidelines, which say Attorney General Janet Reno must approve in writing the subpoenaing of material from a journalist, may have been violated On April 14, two prosecutors [...]

Newspaper internship coordinators and recruiters agree that completing an internship is vitally important for journalism students hoping to get hired. George Rede, the Portland Oregonian's recruitment director, noted that students who develop a track record, by interning, are far ahead of their peers. On the other hand, campus newspapers remain a key testing ground for aspiring reporters., THE INTERNSHIP IS the key to the journalism job market, according to newspaper recruiters and internship coordinators. 'In our mind, having a track record before you graduate is vitally important; [...]

Journalism professor Gerald Hannon has been accused of promoting his personal philosophies about pedophilia and homosexuality to students at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, Ontario. Some members of the Canadian media claim that Hannon's classroom actions violate journalism ethics. Others believe Hannon's actions were justified under academic freedom., GERALD HANNON WALKED to the front of the journalism classroom at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute last fall and made a shore announcement: 'I am a homojournalist.' Hannon, 51, a popular teacher [...]

Attorney Marshall M. Tanick has been accused of representing conflicting parties in two First Amendment cases in Minnesota. Tanick simultaneously represented the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Minnesota, and a client suing the University of Minnesota Medical School for releasing sensitive medical photos of her breasts to the Star Tribune, which was also sued. Michele Ames, editor in chief of the Minnesota Daily, may ask the Minnesota Bar Association to investigate Tanick's actions., CAN AN ATTORNEY adequately represent sent two conflicting points of view of two separate cases in the same district court? Is it proper for a lawyer to cite a decision [...]

A legal confrontation between the University of Minnesota's independent campus newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, and Hennepin County prosecutor's office ended when a judge ordered a hung jury to begin new deliberations. The prosecutor had subpoenaed the newspaper to turn over unpublished photographs of a clash between alleged White Supremacists and other groups on campus. The Minnesota Daily refused and was forced to pay daily fines of $250 for defying a judge's orders. The case attracted widespread attention and impacted the governor's race in Minnesota., 'HEADS UP, HERE comes the Nazis.' After that curt warning, two dozen people walked across a darkened Coffman Plaza toward a pedestrian bridge on the University of Minnesota campus. The [...]

The University of Nebraska's newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan, has been criticized by the university's football team and its coach, Tom Osborne, for being unnecessarily critical of the team and its members. The newspaper has covered different stories about team members and their dealings with the law. One was accused of attacking a woman and another was convicted of reckless driving and killing a young girl. The newspaper staff has upheld its right to be critical, but other parties believe that the school paper should support its team., Former student editor says everyone in the state is raised to love University of Nebraska football; whe you don't, coach Tom Osborne wants to know why WHEN JEFF ZELENY was [...]

'Newsday' sports copy editor Eric Compton was fired on Jan 18, 1995, for alleged racial remarks made before a new employee, John McGinn, who is Native American, reported for work. Compton and his colleagues denied the charges and filed a complaint with the New York State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. The appeal board got Compton the unemployment benefits he had been denied on Apr 7, 1995. There are complaints from minorities and women about the atmosphere in the department and the white males claim that everyone is made fun of., THE NEWSDAY SPORTS copy editors stood around their computer terminals gossiping about a minority trainee who was about to join the department. Eric Compton and a colleague, Norman Cohen, wondered [...]

Reporter Brad Smith lectured a class at UMass-Amherst about how he obtained the information on the low grade-point averages of the campus' athletes. The lecture resulted in a controversy over whether the reporter violated the privacy rights of the students, and also brought up the racial issue, since many of the athletes were black. University officials reprimanded the people involved in the lecture, including journalism lecturer Stephen J. Simurda., IT BEGAN WITH a telephone call from Stephen J. Simurda, a freelance writer and part-time journalism lecturer, to Brad Smith, a reporter for the Springfield (Mass.) Union-News. Would Smith give [...]

Professors and others involved in the publishing of the Daily Egyptian student newspaper at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale opposed a subpoena from the Carbondale, IL, city police requested photographs and video footage of a Halloween riot. Professors argued that the Daily Egyptian and the SIUC Nightly Report, a television program, are meant to teach good journalism, thus they would not voluntarily hand over media materials., THE ANNUAL HALLOWEEN street parties in Carbondale, Ill., had become too hard to handle, so city officials ordered the bars and restaurants on the Strip to close at 10 p.m. [...]

An independent student newspaper called the Student Review published an account of how Brigham Young University athletes were exempted from the honor code violations that could get other students expelled. The publishing of the article caused such a furor that many of the sources cited in the article asked to have their names removed from the article and the publisher of the paper even received a death threat. Although other media companies tried to follow up on the story, they were not able to get the sources to give out as much information as the Student Review did. However, parts of the article were substantiated., BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY has an honor code that follows strict Mormon principles -- no drinking, smoking, premarital sex, suggestive clothes, or other behavior forbidden by the Church of Jesus Christ [...]

Past and present staff members of the Daily Universe, Brigham Young University's student newspaper, have experienced censorship at the hands of university officials. Brian Kagel, for example, described changes university provost Bruce Hafen made to a story about faculty members' disagreement over evolution. BYU instituted faculty control over the newspaper in 1972., Former student journalists say Brigham Young University provost and other administrators acted as censors of campus-paper copy over the years BRIAN KAGEL STILL can see Brigham Young University Provost Bruce [...]

An speech at Kean College by Nation of Islam official Khalid Abdul Muhammad led to widespread scrutiny of the campus newspaper, the Independent. Muhammad's address led to a national controversy when the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith published some of his statements against Jews, the pope and South African whites. The Independent published Jewish protests against Muhammad but did not publish his comments. Several faculty members suggested student journalists had been coerced by faculty not to publish Muhammad's words., LEAH KARNATSKI TOOK a flier from a small group of Jewish faculty and students stationed outside Wilkins Auditorium at Kean College in Union, N.J. The protest was targeting a speech [...]

The appointment of a Jesuit professor to oversee publication of the Marquette University student newspaper, the Tribune, is likely to exacerbate a standoff between editors and administration officials over news stories that contradict Catholic doctrine. The furor over an editorial about the abortion pill caused the entire editorial board to resign in Mar 1993. The dispute has created a conflict-of-interest dilemma for the journalism department and damaged its reputation for upholding press rights., BILL BLANTON, FACULTY adviser to the Marquette Tribune at Marquette University in Milwaukee, watched the pressure build on his student journalists for two and a half years, then resigned. 'I [...]

The Alma Mater Society (AMS), the student governing body at the University of British Columbia, decided to close the school's newspaper, The Ubyssey, and reopen it in the fall of 1993 under administrative editorial control. The AMS contends that newspaper editors acted irresponsibly toward the majority of the students by being politically slanted and printing offensive material in the 1993 Valentine's Day issue. Advertisers complained after the issue came out. The paper's editors say that it is under attack by a group of conservative students who run the AMS and who are supported by the administration., THE UNIVERSITY OF British Columbia student government in Vancouver recently took over the campus newspaper in a free-speech dispute that touched Canada's major political parties. The Alma Mater Society (AMS), [...]

The Parthenon, Marshall University's newspaper, raised a furor when it printed a story about a rape on campus and included the name of the rape victim. Ironically, the Parthenon's editor had campaigned for the post by vowing to amend the paper's rules to allow such disclosure. Amid protests the Parthenon's editorial board reversed itself again, but not before Pres J. Wade Gilley disbanded the Student Publications Board and inaugurated a war with his journalism department., Anatomy of the debate that occurred after Marshall University's campus newspaper printed the identity of an alleged rape victim It started with a telephone tip. A woman was alleging that [...]

A University of New Mexico Daily Lobo investigation into campus-wide sexual harassment and abuse resulted in allegations against John Samson, the newspaper's managing editor. Three women journalists charged that Samson refused to publish their stories after they resisted his sexual advances. Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Brian Polding found Samson guilty, and in fall 1992 Samson was permanently suspended from his newspaper post., 'IF YOU HAVE been sexually harassed, abused or molested on campus or at a campus-related activity, I'd like to talk to you. The incident does not have to have been [...]

Marie Blanchard, A reporter for the UCLA student newspaper, the Daily Bruin, stared at Dennis Lytton, a stocky man in a suit who was seated across from her, and waited [...]

The campus police at Keene State College in New Hampshire initiate an investigation designed to determine the identity of the organizers of a rally in support of legalizing marijuana. Campus police allege that numerous illegal activities occurred during the rally, and police visited the off-campus home of members of the Equinox college newspaper during the course of the investigation. When campus police attempted to obtain the newspaper's film of the event, the Equinox threatened to sue and the police relented., Joel Kastner poked his head out of his second-story apartment at 210 Winchester Street and saw a couple of uniformed police officers at his door. 'I thought at first that [...]

Managing Editor of the Riverside, California-based Press-Enterprise Mel Opotowsky claims that journalists were deluded by an FBI disinformation campaign regarding the causes of the TWA Flight 800 crash. Though the Press-Enterprise ran a front-page story revealing a new theory that a missile shot down the plane, Opotowsky maintains that most journalists shied away from investigative reporting and instead accepted the information given by public officials. The FBI denies concealing information is mentioned., A WEST COAST newspaper believes the nation's media succumbed to an FBI disinformation campaign that kept the public from finding out why TWA Flight 800 crashed off the coast of [...]

Editors of the University of Texas-Pan American student paper 'Pan American' resisted and ultimately resigned over a university rule giving faculty adviser Robert Rollins the right to delay up to 48 hours any article he deemed potentially libelous. The Texas ACLU and the Student Press Law Center supported the students. Univ of Texas System attorney J. Robert Giddings defended the rule, stating that since the paper recently became part of the Communications Dept, precedent was set by a Supreme Court case backing censorship of a high school newspaper that was part of the curriculum., David Waltz, editor of the University of Texas-Pan American's student newspaper, the Pan American, sat at his computer and carefully constructed his battle cry of an editorial: 'We want our [...]

The Texas Office of General Counsel, citing a 1988 Supreme Court decision that held that student newspapers in high schools could be censored, is trying to seize editorial control of student newspapers in the state's public universities and colleges. The Texas Office of General Counsel says that the Supreme Court decision also holds for institutions of higher education. The Texas Intercollegiate Press Assn plans to fight the attempt., THE TEXAS PUBLIC college and university system may become the setting for a ferocious First Amendment battle that could affect the rights of all campus newspapers. The student editors and [...]

Professional baseball teams offered newspaper editors and reporters hard-to-get tickets for free or at low prices during the 1996 playoffs. The practice has caused editors to question the ethics of purchasing tickets that are unavailable or more expensive to the public. Team owners offer the tickets to win favorable news coverage, especially when public financing for a new sports facility is sought. Team ownership or stadium investment by newspaper companies complicate the issue., In the old days, baseball teams paid for travel and food for writers who covered them, showered them with gifts and took them on junkets. But those policies changed during [...]

College newspapers are attempting to open up campus-run courts to gain access to what crimes are happening on campus. However, these courts have been very reluctant to give access to campus newspaper officials and prevent them from entering under such acts as the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act. These courts are run by students or other campus officials and often try criminal cases such as rape or murder. The Daily Tar Heel campus newspaper at the University of North Carolina has made headway into its campus court by filing suit against it in Orange County, CA., THE RUMORS WERE flying all over the University of North Carolina campus at Chapel Hill. A woman reported that she had been sexually assaulted. But there was no police report. [...]

There were no stories in the local press about the access that journalists and editor had to New York Yankee tickets. Many journalists rejected the tickets because they believed it was an attempt to encourage favorable coverage of a new Manhattan, New York, NY, stadium to be built with taxpayer funds. Refurbishing of the Yankees' stadium in the Bronx is still being paid for., It started before the first round of the baseball division playoffs when police broke up lines of angry fans unable to buy tickets for sold out games between the New [...]

Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden, the former prosecuting attorneys during the O.J. Simpson trial, have been shielding themselves from the press during their national lecture tours by insisting that their speeches not be taped or recorded and by refusing to take reporters' questions. Many in the media have questioned the legality of such a procedure with respect to the First Amendment and believe Darden and Clark are shielding themselves from the media to maximize the publicity value of their lectures., Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden were anonymous Los Angeles deputy district attorneys before the O.J. Simpson trial became a must watch television soap opera. But as the courtroom drama played [...]

Toronto, Ontario's Ryerson Polytechnical Institute has not renewed the contract of part-time journalism instructor, writer and gay prostitute Gerald Hannon. Many of Hannon's colleagues did not support his views on pedophilia. Hannon had written several articles praising intergenerational relationships between young boys and male adults. Three Canadian magazine journalists would not replace Hannon., Toronto journalists and academics are picking sides in a free expression free-for-all that followed the sacking of Gerald Hannon, a 51-year-old part-time college journalism instructor, writer and gay prostitute. The [...]

The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News will have student journalists from 18 colleges and universities working during the summer of 1996 even if the newspaper strike continues. The strike started during the summer of 1995 and none of the student interns returned to work. Many striking journalists believe that the students will be scabs even though they are not taking any of the employed journalists' positions., Student journalists from at least 18 colleges and universities will work as interns this summer at the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, even if the papers remain on strike. [...]

Western Kentucky University might be the best photojournalism school in the country. Its students have won the Hearst Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition every year since 1989. The prize, which is considered the Pulitzer Prize for undergraduate students, was awarded to Joe Stefanchik in 1995 for his photograph of an explosion and gas fire on Jan 19, 1994, in Bowling Green, KY. Despite the accolades, the school has up until now remained little known in the field., JOE STEFANCHIK FELT like he'd been punched in the chest, but he kept his camera fixed on the firefighter trying desperately to escape a ground-shaking explosion. 'You could taste the [...]

Students and faculty at Central Connecticut State have fought over the affirmative action issue since 1993, and the situation has grown worse because of a recent campus incident. Professor Jay Bergman posted an anti-affirmative flier and minority student Dawn Bliesener removed it, causing angry words between the two, which resulted in Bergman accusing Bliesener of violating his First Amendment rights. The incident has since escalated into other campus situations involving faculty members, the student newspaper and students., THE CENTRAL CONNECTICUT State University Student Center was the command post for young journalists tracking the affirmative action and First Amendment chaos swirling around the campus. 'We'd go there every [...]

Los Angeles Times photographer Al Schaben took the photographs of the chase scene of O.J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco down a Los Angeles, CA freeway before his arrest but another Times photographer Larry Ho was mistakenly given credit for the photographs because he took pictures of Simpson at the police station. Schaben got his degree from the University of Nebraska and worked as a student intern at the Detroit Free Press before he began his professional career at the Los Angeles Times., THE RADIO REPORTS crackled with misinformation O.J. Simpson was giving himself up. O.J. Simpson has disappeared. O.J. Simpson has killed himself. every journalist in Los Angeles was looking him. Al [...]

Editors of the University of California's campus newspaper, the Daily Trojan, were criticized for their decision to downplay the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The paper offered no coverage of the event, and it included only a short article about Simpson's acquital. The noncoverage decision was not supported by the writers and editors of the newspaper's sports department; they believed that the paper was abandoning its responsibility to provide news coverage. Former newspaper editors and writers were also critical of the newspaper's editorial decision., THE UNIVERSITY OF Southern California campus is a short car ride from the courthouse where its most famous alumnus, O.J. Simpson, was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend. [...]

Omaha World-Herald editor and VP G. Woodson Howe denies that his newspaper was pressured by Nebraska University football coach Tom Osborne to delay the the publication of a story critical of the college's football program. The newspaper was also accused of softening the story's negative portrayal of the Nebraska football program. The article had cited a survey showing that 13.2% of the college's football players had committed misdemeanors and alcohol-related infractions, compared with only 6% of the male non-football playing college population., TOM OSBORNE WAS on top of the football world. His University of Nebraska Huskers had just beaten Miami in the 1995 New Year's Day Orange Bowl to win the National [...]

Former high school editor-in-chief Stacey Burns still refuses to give the Seattle police photographs of white and Asian students rioting against each other at Mountlake Terrace High School during Jan 1995. The photographs would help the police determine who was at fault, according to the police department and Snohomish County District Judge Ronald L. Castleberry. Burns has since graduated and attends Washington State University, but maintains that the integrity of the school newspaper and student trust is at stake., IT STARTED LAST January 26th in the parking lot of Mountlake Terrace High School, a middle-class Seattle suburb. An Asian and a white student, both freshmen, had squared off against [...]

Private newspaper publishers in Columbia, MO, are complaining that a newspaper published by the University of Missouri School of Journalism is competing unfairly by using taxpayer-subsidized funds. The university publishes the Missourian, a daily that is subsidized by the Missourian Weekly, which has attracted many grocery advertisements. The publisher of the Columbia, MO Tribune is seeking to force the Missourian to disclose its finances through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit., DARWIN HINDMAN, THE mayor of Columbia, Mo., chuckled as he conjured up a vision of student journalists and their professional rivals scouring his city for a story. 'No city government [...]

ABC newscaster Sam Donaldson is upset about the media coverage on his livestock ranch in Hondo, NM, and the sheep and mohair subsidies he receives from the government, which totaled $97,000 from 1993. In the media, Donaldson has been outspoken against any farm subsidies, and, since the publicity, has been called a hypocrite by critics. Wall Street Journal and the New York Post have both run stories about Donaldson's three ranches in New Mexico., ABC NEWSCASTER SAM Donaldson claims he's been victimized by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and 'ABC World News Tonight' in stories about his three ranches in New [...]

Kansas State University engineering student Ross Taton died on Jan 9, 1995 after being stabbed. It is unknown in Mar 1995 whether the death was a murder or a suicide. The Manhattan, Kansas police have not released much information to the local newspaper or to the campus newspaper. This lack of information has frustrated journalists, frustrated the Taton family and frightened students., ROSS TATON STAGGERED down the first floor hallway of his dormitory shortly before 4 a.m., bleeding from a knife wound in the left side of his chest. Taton stopped at [...]

The Kennesaw State College newspaper, 'The Sentinel', did not print an anti-Holocaust advertisement sent to this college and many universities in the US by Visalia, CA-based Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust Dir Bradley R. Smith. The newspaper sent the ad and its payment back to Smith. Kennesaw Student Publications Coordinator Ed J. Bonza had considered placing the ad in the newspaper but decided against it and decided not to print any information about the ad., 'SHE'S IN, SHE'S out.' That terse headline on the front page of the Sentinel informed its Kennesaw State College readership that Christina Jeffrey, Ph.D. had been fired as historian of [...]

Uttaim Jain complained that University of Iowa officials did not inform him that his son, Sanjay, attempted to commit suicide twice in late Nov 1994, before he was successful on Dec 4, 1994. Jain believes the campus newspaper, 'The Daily Iowan', should also have disclosed the suicide attempts, so that other individuals on campus would have kept an eye on Sanjay. Readers of the campus newspaper were critical of the reports of Sanjay Jain's and two other students' subsequent suicides, all in the same dormitory, between Dec 4, 1994 and Jan 15, 1995., Father of victim says college officials never told him about son's two previous tries; contends those incidents should have been reported to the school paper THE FATHER OF an 18-year-old [...]

Ruth Halikman, editor in chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia University, was dismissed from the paper and faces charges after admitting that she pulled a fire alarm to obtain a photograph. The alarm brought to the campus a new fire truck that the paper had been trying to photograph for some time. Associate photo editor Richard Altman was also involved. The paper brought attention to the incident itself by dismissing Halikman and apologizing to the community in its editorial page., Journalism stunt has repercussions beyond the Columbia University campus border It was supposed to be a good news story for the Columbia University community - a new fire truck for [...]

The attack of student photographer Stephanie Sinclair by University of Florida football player Anthone Lott was not initially covered by the Florida newspapers. Sinclair, who works for the school's Daily Independent Alligator, was distraught over the incident, which occurred after she had taken a picture of Lott on the football team's sideline. Lott was angered by Sinclair's actions and hurled his football gear at the photographer. The professional photographers who were in the area saw the incident happen but did not report it to their newspapers. The Orlando Sentinel and the Gainesville Sun later commented on Lott's actions., STEPHANIE SINCLAIR CROUCHED and snapped her first picture of Anthone Lott as the University of Florida (UF) football star lay face down on his shoulder pads. Lott, tears in his [...]

A humorous restaurant column by University of Florida student football player Anthony Ingrassia in the student newspaper Independent Florida Alligator was temporarily cancelled for violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) bylaws. The NCAA had Ingrassia stop is popular column 'Anthony Digests' on Sep 29, 1994, after the University asked the NCAA if there was any violation. The column was restored after three weeks following complaints from the media, but the NCAA then ruled that no college athletes could write for profit-making media organizations, even if they were not paid for their articles., LAST SUMMER, ANTHONY Ingrassia gulped down 13 bowls of spaghetti in a $2.95, all-you-can-eat pasta contest at a Gainesville, Fla., restaurant. Ingrassia's feat in what the eatery called the Challenge [...]

The Corning, NY-based Corning Community College newspaper 'The Crier' was temporarily closed on Feb 16, 1994, because it had violated 11 of the university's rules. The problems stemmed from student editor Crystal Daugherty's feud with Brian Morgan, a student who was involved in the university's student government. After several misspellings of Morgan's name, the Corning Community College's administration and the Student Senate Association chose to close the newspaper. Daugherty has stated that the mistakes were not made intentionally, although other student journalist do not concur., THE FIRST ROUND of computer proofs identified Brian Morgan, a newly elected student government representative, as Brain Morgan. The next proof referred to him as Brian Moron. And that was [...]

Cartoons in the Columbia University Daily Spectator that were critical of the women's movement have caused women on the campus to express their anger at conservative cartoonist David Naylor. The cartoonist says the vituperative response to his cartoons is a sign that there is no sense of humor left on the American campus. However, women's groups say Naylor's depiction of no-run mascara, a vacuum cleaner and push-up bras as the most important developments in women's history was nothing more than a direct insult to women., Is the First Amendment taking a back seat to political correctness? Columbia University cartoonist's satire angers women DAVID NAYOR SAT in a Columbia University hangout explaining why he thought American [...]