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Last week, a squabble between the student government and newspaper at Montclair State University forced editors to halt publication as legislators revoked their funding. Though the Student Government Association (SGA) has recently agreed to temporarily resume funding, the fiasco marks a disturbing and troublesome trend in collegiate journalism—namely, that criticism of authority is met with censorship. The debacle began when the newspaper critiqued the student government for holding meetings that were closed to the press—a violation of a state open meetings law, according to a lawyer that that paper retained. Though the editors?...
Novielli said the SGA appealed directly to Summers after “we realized we weren’t getting the support we needed from our own [GSE] administration...
Novielli included a copy of Bollinger’s letter in an e-mail SGA sent to Summers Tuesday announcing the resolution...
...spokesperson Greer Bautz said the school has reached out to students on the issue, including a presentation to the SGA at which administrators “asked for recommendations for how to gather input more widely from the student body...
Monday’s resolution requests that any potential GSE representative on the task forces come from the SGA. But the SGA currently includes no doctoral candidates among its 20 officers, McCarthy said...