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Editors of the University of New Mexico's student newspaper, the Daily Lobo, refused a payment offered by the school's president to halt ads for an Albuquerque strip club. Marisa Demarco, Lobo's editor-in-chief, said she rejected the offer because it would compromise the independence of the paper.
UNM Regent Doug Brown wrote a letter to the paper in July criticizing its decision to run the strip club ads. "It serves to promote activities that are degrading and exploitive of women and gives a false representation of the values we hold," he said. He added that the paper would probably remove an ad that offended racial, ethnic, or religious groups. "Why should an ad that denigrates women merit different treatment?"
The president's ...