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Editors of the Script, the student newspaper at Hampton University VA, thought they were serving student needs when they published an article in the October 15 issue reporting that the student cafeteria had been cited for more than 100 health code violations since March.
But acting president and provost Dr. Jo Ann Haysbert demanded the editors publish her letter on efforts to correct the situation and criticized the newspaper's report--on page one of the October 22 issue. Slap #1.
Instead, editors chose to publish an article on how the cafeteria had passed a recent health inspection, and put her letter on page three, where letters usually run. In response, administrators forbade delivery of the issue and staff confiscated every copy. Slap #2.
Amid threats to quit funding the newspaper, the student staff agreed to republish the issue with her article on page one--in exchange for forming a task force on the future of the newspaper. Slap #3.
But the ...