November 8, 2002

Censorship a Red Herring at Southern Connecticut

To the Editor:

The Chronicle presented a lopsided, inaccurate, and misleading view of alleged censorship at Southern Connecticut State University ("Sense and Censorship," Short Subjects, October 4). The student press on the campus is as free today as it was in 1976, when I was editor in chief of the campus newspaper. What is censored at SCSU is the spirit of journalism. It is imprisoned in an ivory tower with shutters across the windows and guarded by an aging department unwilling to