The San Francisco call., 1910-11-04
STUDENTS RESENT
PRESSCENSORSHIP
Stanford Correspondent Fired
for News Story Written by
Another Person
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STANFORD. UNIVERSITY. Nov. s.
Just what meaning may be attached 10
the sudden inactivity of Prof. A B.
Clark and his committee on student af-
fairs is the cause of wonderment and
speculation at the university. Here
tofore Clark and his colleagues have
been Jealous IN the extreme in set
Ting any matter they have deemed 70
be irregular, but II seems now as II
the storm had passed
The firing of one of the student
correspondents recently for an article
he did not write and which is gener-
ally considered TO have been perfectly
harmless. is still the cause OF great
indignation among the students.
COMMENT BY COMMITTEE
The matter was taken up in fact by
the Daily Palo Alto. the student paper.
and Editor Harold Ferguson wrote par
ticularly CT a certain communica tion
kindly rendered him by the committee
which read in part:
The efforts of the committee to han
die grave matter with becoming pri-
vacy are made the occasion of mis-
statement, ridicule and unfair critt-
cism.
ship which you conceive causes a Ia
menSable situation in a university such
as Stanford, striving as we are at pres
ent for closer relation between the
faculty and the student body. Your
one sided representation of facts and
failure TO condemn unworthy acts may
contribute something toward perpet-
uating this lamentable situation In
censoring falsahood, vulgerity and un
fair criticism of university officials
and policies the student affairs COM
mittee is but carrying out university
Instructions
REPLY OF EDITOR
The editorial reply was in part:
a communication has been re-
ceived from the faculty committee
on student affairs by the Daily
Palo Alto, which we publish in full
in this issue. A nisconception upon
the part of the committee seems
to have arisen with reference 10
the position taken and the condi-
tions criticized by the Daily Palo
Alto. In a news story. we publish
in full the exact grounds and
causes for the suspension of
student correspondent and every
statement made in that article is
absolutely correct in every essen
tial. The city correspondents have
personally desired information
from the editor of the Daily Palo
that will be censored by the
student affairs committee and there
is no more efficient manner in
which such information can be
placed before them and the univer-
sity public than through the
columns of the college publication
OBJECTION To CENSORSHIP
We still maintain. however. that
there is press censorship and
that such restriction extends 10
cases where the facts are com
municated to city editorial rooms
telephone and the story is there
written by one who Is not stu
dent. The campus correspondent
suffers the result of a city re-
porters work. because the story
happens 10 bear university date
line. We do not state that the
stories as appearing in the city
newspapers meet with our ap-
We think ii a severe censorship of
campus reporters when one who
telephones facts is suspended for
such acts
We also depIore a censorship Of
the local publications which pro-
hibitS free discussion Of the topics
of personal interest TO the student
body from the viewpoint of the
student. As has been stated by the
chairman of the student affairs
committee to the editor OF the
Daily Palo Alto before a witness
The Daily PaIo Alto has no right
10 criticize the actions of the uni
TerSity authorities We do not
uphold -falsehood vulgarity and
unfair criticism of the university
officials and policies of the COM
mittee on student affairs" but we
do maintain that from the stand
point of the Stanford student body,
which the Daily Palo Alto repre-
sents, this censorship is lament