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In article <loh.739769211@sfu.ca> loh@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Meng-Wei Loh) writes:
>end to campus journalism. I would much rather that they begin a public
>dialogue to address this disatisfaction with the content than to make such
>an obviously authoritarian move. 
>

There has actually been a petition calling for a referendum to decide on the
Ubyssey's fate.  This petition, however, was turned down due to a lack of 
signatures or some other bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo.  Had there been a referendum,
the student body would have brought the axe down on them, and not the AMS.
Let's face it--the Ubyssey is NOT a very popular paper.

But let's not "censor" the Ubyssey.  If they want to keep publishing the sort
of material that they have been, they should find their own ways of funding
it, like with revenue from advertising, or they can sell for a price at the
newsstand.  I'm sure it would be a bestseller and cover all its costs.  (Yeah
right!)  Let's face it.  This would teach them that covering their own expenses
is one of the responsibilities of journalism, and so is the responsibility of
printing respectable material.

Anyways, so much for articles encouraging students to commit crimes, graphic
descriptions of sadomasochistic homosexual activity, little girls biting off
their fathers' penises, and other sick, twisted, and perverted stories that
do nothing better than to make the people who read them vomit.  Just imagine
the kind of reaction the engineers would get if they were to print similar
sort of material involving heterosexual activity in their nEUSletter, self-
funding or otherwise.  It just wouldn't be "politically correct" in this case,
and they would all get their heads cut off.

Well, it's good to see that people are now questionning the "politically
correct" and that they are not a special class that can get away with murder.

-Bill Y. Kawakami
 Computer Science/Physics 3