Naked Lunch
The Spring 1958 edition of the university's literary journal the "Chicago Review", edited by Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll, published excerpts from William S. Burroughs’ experimental novel "Naked Lunch." The university was criticized for publishing fiction deemed obscene by a columnist in the "Chicago Daily News" and suppressed the Winter 1959 issue, which contained more material from the "Naked Lunch" manuscript. The university administration fired Rosenthal and Carroll, who regarded the university's attempt at suppressing "Naked Lunch" as censorship.