The U.S. Supreme Court denied the paper's petition Tuesday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied requests to hear the case again before the full court. The Pitt News claims that the ban violates their First Ammendment rights. While we don't necessarily agree that is true, we do disagree with a law that infringes upon the rights of those who attend college in the state of Pennsylvania. Because of the censoring required by law, they are unable to open a student newspaper at their own college to do so. College is supposed to guide children who are making the transition into adulthood.
Alcohol exists in our society.
Simply attempting to remove advertisements for it from certain people's vision is not a way to keep underage students from consuming. Action like this only serves to make an important part of the voting population seem like second-class citizens. It is not the job of a college newspaper to police readers and help curb underage drinking. It is the job of a college newspaper to inform those who peruse its pages for the information they need. Act 199 was certainly a noble idea, but it's robbing college students of more than information.