Kareem Fahim of The New York Times recently reported on an on-going battle between The Montclarion (the Montclair University student-run newspaper) and the Montclair University student-body government (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/nyregion/29montclair.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=journalism&st=nyt&oref=slogin). Apparently, Ron Chicken, the president, halted the newspapers funds after a series of articles concerning the student government ran in the paper. The artiles were not favorable towards the government. Halting funds is one of the few legal ways that can affectively cease a university publication from going to press.
It seems rather juvenile to me. It's like saying, "I don't like what you're writing, even though it's true. So, I'm going to shut you down. Oh, wait, I can't. That's illegal. But, ah-ha!!! I found a loophole. I can cut off your funding!!!" Grow up people. One of the greatest things about this country is our ablility to speak our minds, outloud, in any forum we so choose, so long as there is no emiment danger or false statements made. If you don't like what an article says, you have every right to write a letter saying so. Or hold a rally. Or sing a song. Or do nothing. It's your choice.
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