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15:39 - Now that's censorship!
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A few days ago I posted about the ACLU's collection of controversial post-9/11 cartoons and its proud and heroic gallery showing how these brave cartoonists were flouting the will of the Man by speaking their minds, drawing blood with every sweep of their pens-that-are-mightier-than-swords, risking suppression and censorship at the hands of all-seeing government agents.
But one cartoon they didn't list, forwarded to me by Mark Johnson, was this one:
The senate's University and External Affairs Committee late Monday night dropped a controversial portion of the condemnation bill, killing a recommendation to raise the rent of the independent student newspaper because of the controversial cartoon. The Daily Cal leases its offices on the sixth floor of Eshleman Hall from ASUC.
Some senators said the authors cut that part of the bill under criticism from student groups and senate opponents.
The amended bill, SB 67A, proposes that all elected ASUC officials sign a letter calling for a printed apology on the front page of the Daily Cal "for using poor judgment during volatile times and possibly endangering students on this campus."
The proposal also asks the Daily Cal's editors to require mandatory sensitivity training for its staff.
See, this is insensitive and inflammatory. But this is brave and heroic.
I get it.
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