Along the way, there were many false starts. Three or four college presidents were disqualified in the preliminary competition when it was learned they had broken with the mainstream by opposing newspaper theft. Luckily for the vibrancy of the Sheldon competition, such behavior is as rare as a Miss America finalist voluntarily dropping out of the pageant. Judges report they had difficulty staying awake because most nominations were so similar. Huge bundles of papers are found in Dumpsters.
Editors go to campus officials for help.
The president of the college is either bicycling in Wales or otherwise unavailable for comment. Or perhaps the head of the university does speak out, finding a way to come down firmly on both sides of the censorship issue. It was unfortunate but not illegal and a form of protest . . . Duluth, the strongest of this year's female Sheldon contestants. Rawlings came to the attention of judges after a parody of Ebonics appeared in the Cornell Review, a conservative paper, and black students seized copies and burned them at a rally.