The 80 students who put out The Missouri Miner, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri at Rolla, have threatened a lawsuit over a decision by university officials to slash its budget by nearly one-third. According to the Columbia Daily Tribune, the students said the budget cut, from $39,500 to $27,000, was a violation of their First Amendment rights.
The idea for the cuts apparently originated amid complaints of an inordinate number of errors in the newspaper last fall. But the paper’s editor in chief said it was clear that the university did not like articles that had criticized it. It also didn’t like the paper’s sex column.
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