July 26, 2002

When Student Newspapers Misbehave

To the Editor:

As much as one supports freedom of the press, one does get the impression that the journalism profession sometimes hangs together on this issue without paying full attention to individual cases. In your June 14 issue, you report that a lot of big-time newspaper reporters are upset about the Syracuse University administration's paying some attention to the campus newspaper, The Daily Orange ("Sense and Censorship," Short Subjects). What you don't report is why, nor how