Another school censoring a newspaper

I find it troubling when institutions of higher learning, especially those that are government funded, take it upon themselves to strip students of their Constitutional rights.

The latest example comes from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. An article by the Student Press Law Center states that school officials have recently implemented a prior review policy for the school newspaper.

As I read further in the article, it mentioned the reason behind the new policy was to cut down on grammatical and spelling mistakes in the paper. Any journalist would be quite naive to believe that one.

If your not going to allow students the opportunity to put the skills they learn in journalism courses why offer journalism classes in the first place?

Carlos Fandel, the dean of the College for Arts and Science, ordered the new policy, according to the SPLC article.

You can call him at 318-342-1750 or e-mail at fandal@ulm.edu.