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In article <649@tijc02.UUCP> pjs269@tijc02.UUCP (Paul Schmidt) writes:

>As far as Universities go, this is NOT true.  The University
>newspaper, although it is owned by the University, has no rights to
>censor any articles, as current legal interpretations of the law
>exist in the U.S.  (This is not the case for High Schools, when a
>well written article was denied to be printed in the H.S.  paper, the
>school was found to have the right because of property laws.)

  I can't believe this.  Are you saying that I can go to The Tech with
an anti-semitic Nazi propaganda article (for example) and say to them,
"You have to print this because current interpretationsof the law say
that you have no right to censor any articles."

  If I write a letter to The Tech, do they have to print it?  If so,
then I guess I should sue them, because I've written two or three
letters that they never printed.

  Or are you saying that the *University* has no right to censor
articles in the newspaper?  If that's what you're trying to say, you'd
better learn to make your modifiers apply to the correct antecedents,
because that's *not* what you're saying in the paragraph above.

>Of course, this notion teaches responsibility to the student.
>Denying final editorial power over the paper will teach what
>responsibilities he has in the real world.  Will you have the guts to
>accept responsibility for those who never learned it until AFTER they
>graduate from college and the boat sinks? Hmm?

  This paragraph seems to reinforce the possibility that what you are
trying to say is that the University doesn't have the right to censor
articles.  Although it doesn't make much more sense than the previous
paragraph.  "Denying final editorial power over the paper will teach
what responsibilities he has in the real world."  Denying whom
editorial power, and who is "he?"

  Sorry if this article sounds like nit-picking, but I just don't
understand what you're trying to say.

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