"Theft" of Free Newspapers (was Re: Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad)

[Kelley Walker]

At 07:40 PM 3/28/01 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>Brown students of color correctly acted in protest against the Brown 
>_Daily Herald_ -- a student paper that should be accountable to students 
>-- which sold its soul *and readers* to Horowitz the advertiser for the 
>sake of racist dollars.  And they did so without breaking any law (unless 
>Providence and/or Rhode Island has a law against destroying "free" 
>newspapers -- see my postscript below).  :-)

as i mentioned, brown and other papers that ran horowitz's ad are not 
official university newspapers.  in brown's case it is a non-profit 
organization, founded in 1975 likely (as in the case of Berk and Wisc) b/c 
the censorship of their respective universities/uni politics during the 60s 
and 70s meant that they chose to break free of uni demands, etc.

kelley