The Transcript

"We regret if anyone was offended. We did not mean to offend anyone but simply to do our best to meet the enrollment goals of our university," DelPropost said."

I look forward to reading about the first student who uses this argument to explain why they cheated on a test, not meaning to offend anyone, but simply doing their best to meet the academic goals of mom and dad.

So, college officials who lie and cheat are showing the positive side to attending this school? If putting in dorm cameras is bad then fight them being installed! I'm always startled by how free speech is often poorly received on college campuses (campi?)

Pah.

Ohio Wesleyan is a private institution, so the First Amendment does not apply in this case; therefore, this article's First Amendment angle is incorrect. However, the censorship of the student newspaper for image-saving purposes is certainly in step with OWU's long history of public-relations-related evil and a vile abrogation of academic freedom and all of the reasons for which a university is supposed to exist in the first place. If this indeed a "teaching moment" for the university, a ban on violating the freedom of speech of the campus newspaper in any way should be explicity described in all student and employee handbook materials and made an explicit just-cause reason for firing an employee. Anything less is just talk, the "solution" OWU specializes in.

John Ruch '08, former editor of The Transcript (the "off-campus" version, for those familiar with the paper's sordid past)