Word: kellen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the paper began distribution last Friday at 9:30 a.m., campus security guards, aided by Chicago police, confiscated 7500 copies of that issue. "We managed to escape with 800 copies," Vince Kellen, the DePaulia's editor, said on Monday...
...that afternoon, Kipp announced that publication of the paper would be suspended indefinitely. Early on Saturday, however, Kellen received a call informing him that Rev. John D. Richardson, president of DePaul University, had reversed the suspension decision, and that the university senate subcommittee would convene on Monday to determine "the propriety of the withdrawal of the issue...
...controversy began when Kellen decided to publish a story about a student who was raped on campus. "We were told not to print the story to 'protect the victim'," Kellen said, adding that he did protect the student "morally and legally" by withholding the name, and that he ran the story because "the students have a right to know." Kellen said that school officials tried to suppress the story to avoid unfavorable publicity about campus security...
...Kellen said "the guidelines are ambiguous. If Kipp advises prior restraint, that's both advising and prepublication censorship...