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"Last week, Indiana University administrators fired the school newspaper’s
(
Indiana Daily Student) advisor and ordered students to stop printing the
paper.
The student journalists say that University administrators didn’t like the
student paper’s decision to increasingly criticize University President Pamela
Whitten’s decision to coddle the authoritarian Trump administration, or, at
best, remain silent as the Trump administration and state leaders take direct
aim at free expression, the First Amendment, and any curriculum teaching about
race or gender discrimination.
Enter students at the Purdue student paper,
The Exponent, who stepped up and
traveled two hours from West Lafayette to Bloomington to help Indiana
University students deliver a physical paper to local students anyway:
“We have the benefit of being fully independent of the university. We own
our own press,” said Kyle Charters, publisher and news adviser for the
Exponent. “We were more than willing, with our extra freedom being an
independent student organization, to help out.”
“Both our publications have had their run-ins with their respective
universities this summer and fall,“ Charters said. “While we’re pretty
significant rivals — and while I might not be rooting for their football
team tomorrow — we do have something in common, and we’re happy to have that
camaraderie.“
It’s the exact sort of resistance and solidarity we’re not seeing in most major
U.S. media outlets, which have, by and large, folded to the pressures of
authoritarianism at the hands of consolidated billionaire ownership"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
