April 7, 2000

Georgetown U. Newspaper Fires Student Who Cried 'Censorship'

When Robert Swope tried to write about the "Little Coochi Snorcher That Could," his editors decided that he no longer would write at all.

Mr. Swope, a columnist at The Hoya, the student newspaper at Georgetown University, was fired after he wrote a scathing critique of a student production of The Vagina Monologues, a play about violence and women's sexuality.

The "snorcher" scene depicts a 13-year-old girl who, after being given a drink, enjoys a sexual

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