The trustees of Montclair State University, in New Jersey, have approved separating the institution’s student newspaper from the Student Government Association, the Associated Press reported. The Montclarion had received most of its budget from the government association, but now will be supported through student fees and advertising revenue.
Minnie Ho, a spokeswoman for Montclair State, told The Star-Ledger, a newspaper in Newark, N.J., that the trustees had approved less than $4 in annual per-student fees to support The Montclarion.
The trustees’ vote last week completes a separation process begun after mediation failed to resolve a dispute between the paper and the government association, which temporarily cut off the newspaper’s funds last January. —Charles Huckabee
