From the University of Connecticut's Daily Campusthis morning:
About 9,000 copies of The Daily Campus were stolen Friday from The Daily Campus Building and several dozen delivery locations on campus. Employees at the Co-op reported seeing two females removing issues of the newspaper near the front entrance. Witnesses also reported seeing two females taking copies from the South Campus dining hall.
Stealing newspapers has long been a calling card of left-wing campus activists. It happened at the UO in '98 when the Emerald endorsed OC's The Tamir for ASUO Exec; it happened to the OC in '93-'94 on account of a critical MECHA cover story. It happened to Berkeley's California Patriot and got one of its editors on O'Reilly. Surely there must be some new twist this time around?
The newspaper thefts came one day after The Daily Campus ran a controversial column in Thursday's issue. The paper featured a column written by Josh Levinson that argued cultural centers do more to divide than they do to unite students on campus.
Hmmm. Perhaps not. Levinson's original column is here; today's expanded letters page is here. Controversial, yes -- but still nothing like the broken phallus of Harvard Yard.
posted by WWB | 4:39 AM |
