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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Quick Takes: Student Government Freezes Funds for Student Media at UC-San Diego - Inside Higher Ed

Quick Takes: Student Government Freezes Funds for Student Media at UC-San Diego - Inside Higher Ed:

"Student Government Freezes Funds for Student Media at UC-San Diego

The student government president at the University of California at San Diego temporarily froze funding for all student-financed media operations on the campus after members of a student media group made racially charged comments on a broadcast, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The incident, which was the second involving deragotory comments about black students in a matter of weeks, led the president of the student government to freeze student funding for all media outlets while the campus drafts a new policy on funding student media. The Guardian, the student newspaper, which does not receive student fee support, blasted the decision in an editorial entitled 'Stopping the Presses Won't Heal the Hurt.'"