Without getting into the issue of affirmative action too much, I think everyone can agree that it is a transitional program. I hope with all hope that education in this country will reach a point where all people of all backgrounds will have the same opportunities and options and will be judged all the same way. That is where Horowitz says he is coming from too, although in my estimation he goes about it the wrong way. But to call The Badger Herald a racist institution because it ran an unpopular ad is engaging in slander of the most cowardly kind. Because as of yet, I have neither seen nor read any criticism of the advertisement in terms of its specific content.
Newspapers take controversial advertisements all the time.
The Herald has made its mistakes too. It should have accepted the MCSC ad in the same First Amendment spirit that Editor in Chief Julie Bosman says it ran the Horowitz ad. In addition, the Herald should not have stifled criticism to its KKK comic strip that it says was meant to portray conformity rather than a promotion of the Klan. Hopefully, the paper will be more open to critical letters to the editor this time around. But our competitor should not be made to apologize.