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| BEYOND THE HEDGES: BYU paper drops cartoonist |
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The student newspaper at Brigham Young University has banished from its pages
the work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose work it deems too racy.
The Daily Universe decided to stop running cartoons by Steve Benson, a BYU alumnus whose work it had published for 15 years. Student editors and the newspaper's faculty adviser, John Gholdston, said Benson's satire of issues such as sexual assault in the Army might offend readers. Benson says the paper's decision really stems from his public attacks on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which owns the university. He left the church in 1993 and later publicly criticized it as racist and sexist. He says the paper's decision reflects "the increasingly oppressive atmosphere that one experiences at BYU in terms of diversity of thought and opinion." Gholdston disputed Benson's interpretation. Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 28.
This item appeared in the News section of the March 21, 1997 issue. |
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