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Spare Change News decided to publish two of the cartoons on the same day that Associate Dean Judith H. Kidd sent an e-mail to Travis R. Kavulla ‘06-’07, editor of the Salient, warning him that certain communities on- and off- campus could potentially threaten members of the conservative biweekly paper...
Kidd said her e-mail to the editors of the Salient yesterday was sent “out of concern for the students.” It was not a judgment on their decision to publish the cartoons, she added...
While mostly conservative-leaning papers have published the cartoons, including The Salient and The New York Sun, editors of Spare Change News decided to publish them within the context of civil liberties...
...expression mean that radical theocratic attitudes like the one held by Hamas’ Jamila Al Shany—“no one can say a bad word about our prophet”— cannot be upheld. The media should continue to have the right to publish cartoons and images even if certain groups may find them offensive, as long as those images do not justify or demand violence. Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons did neither of these things. Furthermore, they were cartoons and clearly satirical...
Kavulla defended his paper’s decision to publish the cartoons...