Student Editor Keeps His Job, but Is Warned About Ethics

by E Wayne Ross on October 9, 2007

The New York Times: Student Editor Keeps His Job, but Is Warned About Ethics

A headline in Friday’s Rocky Mountain Collegian hit especially close to home for the writers and editors of the college newspaper at Colorado State University.

“Collegian Editor Will Keep His Job,” it said, reporting that an independent review board that oversees The Collegian had decided to admonish, but not fire, the editor who had approved a vulgar, four-word editorial about President Bush in a space that would usually run to hundreds of words.