Word: censorship
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...Chimes, the student newspaper at Calvin College in Michigan, has been shut down for defying a censorship order by printing editorials and letters about counselors confidentiality polices...
...scary indeed when the left--the guardians of free speech--choose the same tactic. Certainly the offending strip was boring, even trite, on the day in question, but its moral value was not for The Crimson to judge. The hypocrisy of such a stand for press self-censorship is terrifying indeed. The fact that Harvard students responded as they did suggest a rather healthy grasp of important issues. The Crimson has every right to be self-righteous, even trendy; but it should stay out of the business of censorship. Padraic J. Kennedy...
...There's no doubt at all that the power the government is asserting [by labeling the film 'propaganda'] is a form of censorship," added Tribe. "It's a particularly tragic area for the government to be imposing censorship...
...Crimson has instead ignored these responsibilities with smug censorship disguised as liberal sensitivity...
...that the library is no more, in terms of priorities, than buildings and grounds." Another sore point: a Funderburk aide suggested that faculty members granting interviews to the press report the "nature of such conversations" to the director of university relations. To most of the faculty, that sounded like censorship. Funderburk's problems have also been complicated by his style of working with a small group of loyalists and his exhortatory manner...