Top headline: Indianapolis Star
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Bottom headline: New York Times
Cate Charron reports for the Star:
In recent weeks, school administrators had urged former IU student Media Director Jim Rodenbush and student editors to stop putting news content in print. They wanted IDS's seven print editions per semester to contain only special content hinged on themes like homecoming and Thanksgiving.
Posts from the IDS's social media pages have garnered thousands of reactions and hundreds of comments since Rodenbush's Oct. 14 firing. The next day, the university ordered the publication to cease printing.
In a statement Oct. 15, IU Bloomington Chancellor David Reingold said the university will not interfere with editorial content. [emphasis added]
Reingold is a man of contradictions, to be it charitably.
Katie Robertson reports for the Times:
He said the university would allow The Indiana Daily Student to use its budget “as the editors see fit” through June 30.\
“First and foremost, let me reaffirm that our commitment to a free and independent student press has never wavered,” he wrote.
And if you believe this statement from Reingold...
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