Wesleyan University’s student assembly is considering substantial cuts to the student newspaper’s budget, in a move that is surely *completely unrelated* to a truly stupid recent uproar when the paper published an unpopular op-ed. The paper is soliciting donations to stay alive.
Liberal Wesleyan Students Fight to Ban the Free Press
College newspaper controversies. Is there anything more amusing? I’ll tell you a secret: there is not. Oh, we have a good one today.
Hilarious Christian College Newspaper Op-Ed Calls Yoga "Demonic"
There is nothing in the world of journalism more delightful than a stupid opinion piece published in a college newspaper. What race, gender, or religious group will be hilariously insulted by an undergrad this week?
Alabama Paper Forced to Apologize in Obama's America
The University of Alabama's student newspaper, The Crimson White, has apologized for running this cartoon. But why??
The college that freaked out over the student newspaper's "Sex Issue" this week has already reversed its position (heh).
In Annual Ritual, Some College Newspaper's Sex Issue Causes Scandal
Spring is in the air. The birds are birding. The bees are abuzz. And somewhere out in America's dusty far reaches, a red-faced college administrator is trying to censor a rather tame "Sex Issue" of a college newspaper.
University Suspends Journalism Student For Asking Questions For A Class Assignment
Alex Myers is an Australian exchange student currently studying journalism at SUNY Oswego, part of New York's state university system. Last month he was given a class assignment to produce a profile on a public figure. He chose Oswego men's hockey coach Ed Gosek and began in the standard manner: he reached out to…
Harvard Crimson Editors Have Bigger Balls Than Your Media Boss
The privileged young people of Harvard College are not often recognized for their integrity and backbone. They made a whole movie about how Zuckerberg stole Facebook from the terrible Winklevoss twins, for instance. And just last week more than 100 Harvard students came under fire for a cheating scandal that…
The Daily Texan Cans Its 'COLORED BOY' Cartoonist
Earlier this week, University of Texas student Stephanie Eisner managed to outrage just about everybody with her editorial cartoon about the Trayvon Martin case. I mean, it was "controversial," which is a euphemism for "it was racist." Unintentionally, perhaps, but still. Dayum. Yesterday, Stephanie Eisner apologized.…
Texas College Cartoonist: I Was Fighting Media Bias With 'Colored Boy' Cartoon
Yesterday, University of Texas- Austin student newspaper The Daily Texan won our coveted "Most Racist Trayvon Martin Cartoon" contest for Stephanie Eisner's "WHITE man" vs. "COLORED BOY" media critique pictured above. The paper briefly pulled the cartoon offline when the controversy struck, but put it back up last…
Comment of the Day: A Couple of Yarmulkes Walk Into A Sex Story
Today we read about a salacious and scandalous encounter of the Hebrew kind. Yeshiva University has not been rocked by a literary scandal of this magnitude since the Red Tent came out (though moms love it!). But this mild mannered recounting of college sex-having made us want more! Lucky for us, one commenter giveth…
Laughably Mild Sex Story Torments the Very Soul of Yeshiva University
College newspapers: how are they shocking and outraging campus officials with mild sexual content today? Well, you know, just in the normal way, by writing something about sex. But this time, more Jewish!
Dirty Tricks at The Wall Street Journal in Europe
In your bleary Wednesday media column: the WSJ's European publisher is forced to resign, paywalls come to college papers, Jennifer Granholm gets a TV show, a money back guarantee for advertisers and "Brother" Bill O'Reilly.
'Harvardian's Guide to the Real World' Is Exactly What You Think It Will Be
Ah, springtime in Cambridge! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and the Harvard seniors are wetting their beds on a nightly basis at the prospect of entering "the real world." (As opposed to the elaborate hologram that is life on campus. You thought you lost your virginity in college? Guess again! That…
Shocking Photo Alerts College Students to the Existence of Oral Sex
In your saddening Tuesday media column: college newspaper sex scandal of the day, cable news borrows liberally from a blogger, Computer Weekly folds in print, unpaid HuffPo writers prepare to speak, and a Reuters journalist is killed in Iraq.
The College Journalist's Dilemma: Hated by the Cool Kids
When you're a kid, spreading the details of the misdeeds of others far and wide gets you branded a snitch and ruins your social life. But when you grow up, doing the same thing gets you branded a "journalist," and gets you invited to boring parties! So you can see the dilemma faced by the "college journalist:" old…
College Newspaper to Charge Imaginary Readers
Oklahoma State University's student newspaper will begin charging non-OSU people to read it online. That's... bold.
Without Bad College Cartoons, We Wouldn't Have Bad College Letters to the Editor
College newspaper cartoon controversy alert! We consider it our solemn duty to keep you, the bored public, up-to-date on the very latest unfunny cartoons causing outrage among humorless college students across America. Today: girls are skanks! Dudes love rape! Amirite?
In Praise of College Newspaper Scandals
College newspapers are not totally worthless. They are where young journalists go to learn. About scandal! Angry readers! Outraged parents! Repentant editors! Scared-shitless administrators! And all over some kids who are just making it up as they go! It's great.
Correction: We Didn't Mean to Call You a Ho
"The Delta Gamma girls wore sailor caps, and the Alpha Epsilon Phi ho wore similar green and white ones," reported the University of Florida's paper this week. Uh, Alpha Epsilon Phi hopefuls, they meant. Gurl U must believe them. [Romenesko]
