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My poli-sci professor said 'don't bother with the campus paper, they won't run your op-ed'. He was right. I wrote about the admin's new speech zone policy and they killed it, said it was 'too divisive'.
This was at my state school in Ohio last semester. The policy literally limits protests to a tiny patch of grass behind the library. I had the policy document, quotes from the student handbook, everything. The editor told me it 'could make people feel unsafe'. Not a single factual error, just an opinion they didn't like. So much for the marketplace of ideas. Anyone else have a piece spiked for just questioning a campus rule?
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