Higher Education LGBT
Articles Digest #152
1. STAR-LEDGER (Newark, NJ) Gay student sues Seton Hall, alleging bias
2. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (UT) Suggestive missionary pics spark debate
3. ADVOCATE.COM Gay Missouri college students call for nondiscrimination
policies
4. ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION (GA) Editorial: Lowdown on 'down low': HIV is
killing young blacks
5. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (UT) Controversial artwork stolen from school
6. BOSTON GLOBE (MA) Editorial: Young evangelicals and gay issues
7. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (UT) Editorial: The object of art
8. ASSOCIATED PRESS Gays and lesbians rally for protection at Southwest
Missouri State University
9. DALLAS MORNING NEWS (TX) Editorial: Baylor Brouhaha: What does this look
like to prospective students?
#1
Star-Ledger, March 11, 2004
1 Star-Ledger Plaza, Newark, NJ 07102-1200
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Gay student sues Seton Hall, alleging bias
Sophomore says the university violated law by refusing to recognize his organization William Kleinknecht, Star-Ledger Staff, wkleinknecht@starledger.com
A gay student at Seton Hall University filed a lawsuit yesterday that accuses the school of violating state discrimination law by denying gay and lesbian students the right to have a fully recognized student organization.
The gay and lesbian group was approved by a student committee that reviews such applications, but school administrators rejected the request, saying such an organization would be incompatible with the mission of the Roman Catholic university.
Anthony Romeo, a 19-year-old Cedar Grove resident who filed the suit, said during a news conference outside the Essex County Hall of Records in Newark that he chose Seton Hall because its Web site said it prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
"I think that whenever people's rights are violated, someone needs to step forward and shine a light on it," he said.
Romeo, a sophomore sociology major, said he is filing the suit on behalf of 17 people who signed the application for a group called TRUTH, which stands for "Trust, Respect, Unity at the Hall."
Thomas Shanahan, one of Romeo's attorneys, said some of the students have opted to work on a compromise plan with the university. But, he said, at least five are supporting Romeo's suit. He said those students did not want to be named because they feared retaliation or have not told their parents they are gay.
Seton Hall's Student Organization Activities Committee, an arm of the student government, recommended late last year that TRUTH receive provisional recognition. But Laura Wankel, vice president of student affairs, sent Romeo and his faculty adviser, W. King Mott, a letter on Dec. 18 that denied the application.
"The church teaches that an exclusive focus on a person's sexual orientation denies the fullness of human dignity and diminishes persons in a way that is both reductionist and marginalizing," Wankel wrote.
In the same letter, Wankel proposed a memorandum of understanding that said the group, while denied full recognition, could have a "special relationship" with her office that would allow it to hold forums for educational purposes, such as advocating against discrimination and providing support for gay students and their families. The group also could request funding for certain activities, elect officers and participate in community service.
But Wankel said her office would have to approve the group's name and that it could not sponsor social activities or religious services and would be barred from engaging in activities contrary to church teachings on human sexuality.
Natalie Thigpen, a spokeswoman for the university, said yesterday that officials had not yet been served with the suit and could not comment on its specific allegations.
But, she said, Seton Hall will continue to meet with the students in an effort to reach an understanding that would meet their desire for such an organization without violating Catholic doctrine.
Romeo held a meeting with Wankel after the Dec. 18 letter but did not attend further negotiations because officials would not explain why TRUTH was to be subject to restrictions not applied to other minority student organizations, Shanahan said.
Shanahan, who is handling the case with attorney Marianne Auriemma, said the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination contains a religious exemption that clearly applies to institutions like Seton Hall. But, he said, the school waived the exemption when it stated on its Web site and student handbook that it does not discriminate based on sexual orientation.
"If they hadn't done that, we wouldn't be filing this suit," he said.
Shanahan said the suit also alleges breach of contract because Romeo relied on the Web site's statement about sexual orientation in deciding to attend Seton Hall.
According to the lawsuit, Romeo was a victim of anti-gay bias in his freshman year at the school, with the words "faggot," "queer" and "homo" scrawled in red ink on the wall outside his room.
Romeo's boyfriend, Matt Wilder, a Montclair State University sophomore from Tinton Falls, also spoke at the news conference, saying the gay and lesbian student group at his school has no restrictions on social activities.
"We deserve the same rights that every other student deserves," he said.
Romeo's attorneys say some other Catholic colleges, including Boston College, Fordham, Holy Cross and Providence, have gay student organizations. They said the issue has never been the subject of litigation in New Jersey.
#2
The Salt Lake Tribune, March 10, 2004
P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, UT, 84110
Fax: 801-257-8950 E-Mail: letters@sltrib.com
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/mar/03102004/utah/146373.asp
Suggestive missionary pics spark debate
Christy Karras
But is it art?
A debate over what constitutes art -- and what is too offensive to put on public display -- boiled over at Salt Lake Community College on Tuesday when an angry student took down photographs depicting Mormon missionaries in sexually intimate situations.
The black and white photographs, by Westminster College graduate Don Farmer, are part of a group exhibition by gay, lesbian and transgendered artists at SLCC's South City Campus at 1575 S. State St. Signs posted throughout the show warn: "Caution: The art you are about to witness is the feelings that are portrayed by that artist and not of SLCC."
Farmer's photographs show two young men in white shirts and dark slacks. One wears a missionary name tag. In one image, a young man unbuttons another's shirt; in another, one undoes the other's belt as a book of scripture lies open nearby.
On Tuesday, the first day of the annual Pride Art Show, students got into a shouting match after one of them began taking down Farmer's photographs. Police were called and the photographs re-hung. Police lingered as students on both sides vented their feelings.
Farmer was raised LDS, he said in a telephone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. As a homosexual man growing up in the faith, he says, he felt he belonged to two worlds that could not coexist.
The two men in the pictures are returned missionaries who became a couple, Farmer said. Like him, they struggled with their identity.
"It's real. It's life. It's something that maybe you haven't experienced, but someone else has," he said. "I'm so touched when someone comes to me and says, 'That's how I felt for so many years.' "
But some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints feel Farmer's photographs are an assault on their sacred beliefs.
"They're attacking the LDS Church with images of sexual activity. We want it displayed somewhere else, but they don't see our views," said SLCC student JoAnna Johannesen, who is a member of the church. "They don't want their rights violated, but what about my rights?"
On the other hand, student Carrie Eardley loves the show. More than that, "I love that they're not censoring it. I was damn pleased this morning. It made my day."
Farmer hopes his pictures get people talking about difficult issues surrounding religion and sexuality.
"The purpose behind the imagery was kind of to come to terms with a lot of what I was dealing with," he said. "In a way I was trying to bring those two realms together within an 8x10 frame."
Students believe the debate reflects national and local arguments over homosexuality's place in American culture.
"I don't necessarily support [the photographs], but I support the right to free speech," said Kathleen Tedford, a member of the college's student board. "I think this makes people awaken and realize everything in life is just not perfect. It's going to happen -- being an issue -- until they face it . . . These issues aren't addressed enough."
The exhibit has been moved from a lobby area to a classroom space, said Joy Tlou, the college's public relations director, but it will stay up through Friday.
"Colleges are meeting places for ideas and concepts, and sometimes they're controversial," Tlou said. "In this case, the college is interested in discussing what comes next."
#3
Advocate.com, March 12, 2004
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=11650&sd=03/12/04
Gay Missouri college students call for nondiscrimination policies
Gay and lesbian student groups vowed Thursday to remain steadfast until they persuade Southwest Missouri State University to revise its nondiscrimination policy to include protection for sexual orientation. "We do not give up. We have been back here year after year for 12 years," said Holly Baggett, an associate history professor at the Springfield campus. "They don't want to hear it. Well, I'm very sorry. We're going to continue on until they do."
Baggett spoke to about 75 people during a rally on the steps of Carrington Hall, where the office of university president John Keiser is located. Some carried signs that read, "All means nothing, add sexual orientation" and "We shall be heard."
The Lambda Alliance and the Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Alliance (BiGALA), which represent gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered faculty, staff, and students, are among the groups that have been working since 1991 to have the words sexual orientation included in the policy. Keiser, who believes the policy already covers everyone who works or attends classes at the university, did agree to debate the issue next Thursday with leaders of Lambda Alliance.
The day after the debate, the university's board of governors is expected to consider the issue. The discussion will be limited, and outside speakers will not be allowed to address the board. State and federal laws do not require sexual orientation in a nondiscrimination policy, although hundreds of universities have added it voluntarily. "We are told by the president and board that SMS is in line with federal and state laws, and that is true," said Baggett, president of Lambda Alliance at the university. "Fifty years ago, when we were racially segregated, we were in line with state and federal laws."
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 12, 2004
72 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303
Fax: 404-526-5746 E-Mail: journal@ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0304/12aids.html
Lowdown on 'down low': HIV killing young blacks
Confronted with a startling rise in HIV cases among black male college students, African-American institutions can no longer maintain their silence on this deadly crisis. Ministers, high school principals and college presidents ought to be leading the charge to educate young black men against having unprotected sex with other men.
Instead, many ignore AIDS or dismiss it as a gay white man's disease.
In the meantime, so many bright young African-Americans are falling victim to HIV that researchers call it a public health emergency. A new study out of North Carolina documents a disturbing upsurge in HIV cases among black male college students.
The researchers found 84 newly infected male college students in North Carolina over the past four years, 73 of whom were black. Almost all were infected through unprotected sex with men. Sixty-seven of the black men admitted having sex with men, and 27 volunteered that they also had female partners, which means this conspiracy of silence endangers young black women, too.
Though the study was confined to North Carolina, where new early HIV testing methods are in place, the increase in infections is likely occurring among black male college students across the South. The shocking numbers have prompted North Carolina's historically black colleges to offer more HIV testing and to assemble at a conference next week to talk about the health emergency.
But elsewhere, college administrators are ducking the issue rather than taking a bullhorn to sound an alarm. The officials know that homosexuality remains a taboo in the black community, and that parents sending their sons off to college would be aghast at open discussions of gay sex on campus.
The price of their recalcitrance could be a generation of promising young people sacrificed to ignorance and homophobia. The face of AIDS has changed since the first case was identified in 1981. Increasingly, it is the face of a minority male. Though blacks make up only 12 percent of the population, they represent 54 percent of new HIV infections.
A 2001 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at race in the HIV rates of men ages 23-29 who had gay sex. Thirty percent of the black men tested had HIV, compared to 15 percent for Hispanics and 7 percent for whites.
Those infections could be averted through the use of condoms, but the prevention message isn't reaching young black men. They are, however, getting the loud and clear message from the mainstream African-American institutions that homosexuality is a sin and that AIDS is a shame-based disease.
So, these young men have sex with other men "on the down low," keeping their gay life clandestine and sleeping with girlfriends to appear straight.
Because they underestimate the threat of AIDS and hear little about it on their campuses, they end up playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette with their health. The North Carolina study now shows that many of them are losing.
#5
The Salt Lake Tribune, March 12, 2004
P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, UT, 84110
Fax: 801-257-8950 E-Mail: letters@sltrib.com
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/mar/03122004/utah/147033.asp
Controversial artwork stolen from school
Christy Karras
A group of photographs depicting purportedly homosexual Mormon missionaries was stolen Thursday from Salt Lake Community College, where they were the cause of fierce debate and near violence since going on display earlier this week.
The three silver gelatin prints by Don Farmer, part of a larger exhibit, show young men dressed in missionary garb in intimate situations.
"Certainly, we are treating this as a theft," said Doug McCleve of the Utah Highway Patrol, which handles police duties for the school. The pictures were reported missing at about 8 a.m. Thursday. There was no damage to the building or the remaining pieces in the show, McCleve said.
For now, police have no idea who stole the photographs. Some students, offended by what they considered disrespect to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tried to take the pictures down Tuesday when they were first put on display.
The thief could be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony, depending on the value of the pieces, McCleve said.
College spokesman Joy Tlou said SLCC officials are "distressed" about the theft. After a shouting match erupted Tuesday in the lobby where the show was hung, students worked out a compromise to move it to a classroom, and most people on both sides seemed satisfied, he said.
For Farmer, who took the photographs to document his feelings about growing up Mormon with homosexual leanings, the past few days have been "quite the shock . . .. For someone to take action through a crime to say what they need to say is not the way to go about it," he said. "I would never have fathomed that sort of action against art."
The photos are selenium toned gelatin prints on museum-quality archival paper -- they were not easy to make and would be nearly impossible to reprint the same way, Farmer said. "They are invaluable."
Art dealer Jim Debakis went to look at the photographs, but they were gone when he arrived at the campus. "I was very disappointed. I think it takes a certain kind of arrogance on the part of an individual or group who thinks they're offended by it, therefore nobody else should see it," he said. "The world is a little blacker when some people presume to edit what anyone else should see or shouldn't see."
Gordon Storrs, who advises the student gay/lesbian/transgender group at SLCC, originally asked Farmer to submit the photos. He thought they reflected many students' struggles with homosexuality. "I thought it would provoke discussion," he said. "Colleges are a place where we can have discussions about issues, and being gay is a big discussion."
Instead, Storrs said, some people called him derogatory names at the opening reception for the exhibition. Now, he is saddened that the photographs are gone and may never be returned.
The value of the photographs would typically be determined by the price fetched by other photographs by Farmer. Ironically, Debakis theorized, the furor over the photographs might have made them more valuable -- and thus earn the thief a more serious criminal charge.
#6
Boston Globe, March 13, 2004
Box 2378, Boston, MA, 02107
Fax: 617-929-2098 E-Mail: letter@globe.com
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03
/13/young_evangelicals_and_gay_issues/
Young evangelicals and gay issues
Naomi Schaefer
When Baylor University President Robert Sloan finished reading the school newspaper's editorial in favor of gay marriage last week, he was angry. In a statement that garnered much more attention than the editorial itself, Sloan explained, "While we respect the right of students to hold and express divergent viewpoints, we do not support the use of publications such as the Lariat, which is published by the university, to advocate positions that undermine foundational Christian principles upon which this institution was founded and currently operates."
But the guy who should have been upset is Karl Rove. Baylor is a Baptist university, serious about its commitment to the faith both inside the classroom and out, and its student body was presumably "energized" by President Bush's support of an amendment to the Constitution on same-sex marriage. If the Bush campaign is searching for the 4 million evangelical voters who stayed home during the 2000 election, they should know that the editorial board of the Baylor Lariat, which voted 5 to 2 to support gay marriage, is not unrepresentative of the views of younger evangelicals.
During my visit to the school a couple of years ago, the subject of whether a homosexual student organization should be recognized by the administration was a topic of much discussion. The faculty I spoke with seemed averse to the idea, but among the students it was easy to find a range of opinion.
Then-student body president Matthew Flanigan told me, "I sure don't think there should be a homosexual group. That would mean Baylor is promoting it. That's not in line with what the Bible says." Flanigan acknowledged that the issue of how to deal with homosexual behavior is a difficult one. He doesn't want the school to "kick you out if you're gay . . . We have to love them - and we do - but we can't say their behavior is all right."
Even though Juls Trinh is Catholic, her view is also a commonly held one at Baylor. "It's really difficult for me because I haven't decided if homosexuality is something that you're born with or whether you decide to lead your life that way," she said. "I know it sounds cheesy, but I believe everyone is a person and it's not my judgment. God is going to decide these things."
James Penning, a professor at Calvin College and coauthor of
"Evangelicalism: The Next Generation," says that "students at evangelical colleges today are more likely to believe that homosexuality is something you're born with." (In fact, at no point during my visits to six evangelical colleges did anyone try to promote "conversion
therapy.") Such people may be more sympathetic to the homosexual position than someone who believes it is a choice (such as, say, abortion).
The book, which compares attitudes on "moral boundaries" among evangelical students in 1982 and 1996, offers some interesting statistics. While the percentage of students who believed extramarital sex was always wrong remained the same over that period of time (97
percent) and the percentage who believed premarital sex was always wrong increased (from 89 to 92 percent), the proportion who thought homosexual relations was wrong decreased.
Though it was slight (from 94 to 91 percent), Penning believes that the trend has continued in that direction since 1996 and that now there would at least be "greater openness toward civil unions."
Several factors are at work here. First, we are all products of our environment to some extent and the public has become more accepting of homosexuality in recent years. Second, there is probably a greater awareness of the issues faced by homosexuals today, the result of more gay people being outspoken about their experiences. But the sense that homosexuals are people to be loved, and not necessarily condemned, is at least in part the product of current evangelical culture, and what Penning calls its "increased emphasis on grace and diminished emphasis on judgment."
But the growing support for gay marriage among young evangelicals finds its roots in another trend as well. These students are more likely to place some distance between their religious beliefs and their political views than their parents and grandparents did. The editor of the Lariat explained that the board's decision was based on legal grounds not moral ones. Putting it more bluntly, one young man at the evangelical Wheaton College told me, "Christianity should never be reduced to politics." Hardly the words of an energized voter.
#7
Salt Lake Tribune, March 13, 2004
P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, UT, 84110
Fax: 801-257-8950 E-Mail: letters@sltrib.com
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/mar/03132004/opinion/opinion.asp
Editorial: The object of art
One of the wonderful things about art - and its defining characteristic - is its ability to elicit emotional responses.
Some photographs exhibited at the annual Pride Art Show at Salt Lake Community College certainly elicited such a response, particularly from Latter-day Saint students who said the photographs attack The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its doctrines that denounce the practice of homosexuality.
Students who were offended by the photographs that portray gay Mormon missionaries in sexual situations got into a shouting match Tuesday with other students who defended the exhibit, and police had to intervene when one student tried to take down one of the photographs.
College officials correctly responded to the altercation and moved the photographs out of a lobby to a classroom, where they remained on display.
Now the photographs have disappeared, and police suspect they were stolen by someone who didn't like their message. No one knows who took them, but stealing the photographs would be a poor way to protest - if that is what happened. Debate is one thing; theft is quite another.
The college was right not to censor the exhibit; anyone should be able to view such photographs if they choose to. But students who do not want to see them shouldn't have to pass them in a busy lobby of a public building.
Such a controversial exhibit is fitting for a college, where students should be encouraged to express ideas about all kinds of things in a safe forum. That is a legitimate function of public higher education.
This group exhibit is an opportunity for gay, lesbian and transgendered artists to express what they feel about their sexuality and reactions to it.
Visual images are powerful forms of expression that demand attention. The artist says the gay men portrayed in the photographs are a couple, and they were Mormon missionaries. The artist used them to express his own pain dealing with homosexuality in a Mormon community. Others may be touched by the expression in another man's art of their own personal experience.
It is easy to understand and sympathize with the Mormon students who don't like the photographs. But religion and spirituality are classic artistic themes. Images held dear by Catholics, Protestants and Jews have been depicted in art forms of all kinds for centuries, sometimes provocatively. As the LDS Church grows and its missionary activities increase all over the world, the church and its members will naturally get more attention - both wanted and unwanted.
The exhibit obviously touched some nerves, and that is what art is all about.
#8
Associated Press, March 13, 2004
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8162453.htm?1c
Gays, lesbians rally at Southwest Missouri for protection Connie Farrow, Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Gay and lesbian groups vowed Thursday to remain steadfast until they persuade Southwest Missouri State University to revise its nondiscrimination policy to include protection for sexual orientation.
"We do not give up. We have been back here year after year for 12 years," said Holly Baggett, an associate history professor at the Springfield campus. "They don't want to hear it, well I'm very sorry. We're going to continue on until they do."
Baggett spoke to about 75 people during a rally on the steps of Carrington Hall, where university President John Keiser has his office. Some carried signs that read, "All Means Nothing, Add Sexual Orientation" and "We Shall Be Heard."
The Lambda Alliance and BiGALA, which represent gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender faculty, staff and students, are among the groups that have been working since 1991 to have the words "sexual orientation" included in the policy.
Keiser, who believes the policy covers everyone who works or attends classes at the university, did agree to debate the issue next Thursday with leaders of Lambda Alliance.
The day after the debate, the university's board of governors is expected to consider the issue. The discussion will be limited and outside speakers will not be allowed to address the board.
State and federal laws do not require sexual orientation in a nondiscrimination policy, although hundreds of universities have added it voluntarily.
"We are told by the president and board that SMS is in line with federal and state laws, and that is true," said Baggett, president of Lambda Alliance at the university. "Fifty years ago, when we were racially segregated, we were in line with state and federal laws."
The University of Missouri system ended a debate that had lasted more than decade when it changed its policy in October to specify sexual orientation as a protected category. Similar policies are in place in Missouri at Truman State University, Central Missouri State University, Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Southwest Missouri State's stance on sexual orientation drew statewide attention in February when the Legislature considered changing the university's name.
Seventeen House co-sponsors of the name change signed a letter calling for the university to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy or else they would vote against the bill. Eleven of those did vote against name change, which failed.
Keiser insisted Thursday it is not necessary to change the nondiscrimination policy.
"As long as we are treating the individual who is gay the same as we are treating the individual who is straight, then I think most people would agree that this is the best way to build a society," Keiser said.
Keiser said he has received only a few complaints from gays about mistreatment or discrimination.
Kendall Seal, a senior who is president of the Episcopal Church campus ministry, said he and his friends have been called names on several occasions. They do not complain because they do not believe it would do any good.
"I had higher expectations for this university," said Seal, who grew up in the tiny town of Piedmont in southeast Missouri. "I thought there would be more understanding. I'm sorely disappointed."
#9
Dallas Morning News, March 14, 2004
Box 655237, Dallas, TX, 75265
Fax: 972-263-0456 E-Mail: letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/storie
s/031404dnedibaylor.3017b.html
Editorial: Baylor Brouhaha
What does this look like to prospective students?
The furor over a Baylor student newspaper editorial supporting legal rights for gay marriages has recharged a long-running debate over how the world's largest Baptist university can square its religious mission with its academic one. The two needn't be incompatible.
Student journalists at The Baylor Lariat got a firsthand lesson in the power of the written word. Their editorial, which suggested that gay couples should be allowed to enjoy "the benefits and happiness of marriage, too," outraged President Robert Sloan. He took pains to emphasize it didn't represent the views of the regents, the administration, the faculty, the staff or, for that matter, the board that oversees the student newspaper.
It's difficult to dispute Baylor's right to issue a reprimand. As Mr. Sloan explained, the editorial came "dangerously close to violating university policy, as published in the student handbook, prohibiting the advocacy of any understandings of sexuality that are contrary to biblical teaching."
Still, Baylor officials ought to consider whether it would be in their university's best interests for them to take a step back from this firestorm and adopt a more detached view toward the student newspaper and its editorial position on this or any other issue.
Imagine how this latest controversy must appear to high school students who are contemplating where to attend college and perhaps planning spring-break visits to particular campuses. They certainly couldn't be faulted for wondering whether they could look forward to a robust intellectual discussion of issues during their college careers if the Baylor administration stifles students' thoughts on some topics.
Yes, prospective Baylor students are looking for a sound education grounded in Christian principles. But many don't want that to come at the cost of limiting their freedom of expression. That's particularly true of journalism students, who will believe readers can only benefit from a free and open exchange of views. Those inquisitive young minds will gravitate toward institutions that put discovery ahead of dogma.
Baylor officials should consider redefining their relations with The Lariat. Other private college administrations - like Southern Methodist University - have allowed their student publications to be truly independent and, more to the point, to exercise editorial discretion and learn from it.
If Baylor administrators adopted a similar hands-off approach, they wouldn't feel compelled to scold students for editorials that don't reflect the institution's values. Nor would the student journalists feel hamstrung when expressing themselves. These young reporters and editors need to understand what a free press means.
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