Ohio State Student Journos Cry Foul Over Paper Seizure At Clinton Speech

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Editor & Publisher

The editor-in-chief of the Ohio State University student paper The Lantern is demanding an apology from school officials for what they say was the seizure of more than 5,000 copies of the paper just before former President Bill Clinton spoke at commencement ceremonies.

"I want an apology from the university that we can put on page one," Editor In Chief Gerrick Lewis said. "I need a written apology that I can put in my paper."

According to Lewis and others at the Lantern, bundles of the newspaper, with a special tab for the graduation ceremony, were delivered to the university's stadium several hours before the commencement was to get underway. When students who were paid to distribute the newspapers arrived just before the ceremony, the bundles had disappeared.

"According to the university, Clinton security was told to remove the copies of the newspaper for security purposes," Lewis said. "Basically, at the Lantern, we're not accepting this answer because this has happened before."


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I think Clinton would've agreed with the student paper. Wonder if his Secret Service protection was a bit overzealous?

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Well, President Clinton *did* create the first "no free speech" zones

In Seattle during the 1999 WTO protests. He (or someone very high up in his office) sent orders to Paul Schell, then Seattle's mayor, who used his "emergency" powers as dictator during the "crisis" to make a 50 block area of downtown Seattle into a no free speech zone. A curfew was imposed and anyone within that area after hours was subject to arrest unless they could prove they had "official business." Also, anything that might possibly be construed as protesting -- wearing printed t-shirts, for example, or wearing buttons or carrying around a "subversive" newspaper -- could also get you arrested (and several people were arrested because of shirts, buttons and newspapers.)

[mopinko]

2. oh, please. speech control has been around much longer

than bill clinton. i'm not saying it is right, but i would trace it at least to nixon. really perfected under st ronnie.
but really, it goes back as far as the big man form of government.

[rucky]

5. Alien & Sedition Act - John Adams. n/t

[Toots]

6. It was based on limits set in Abortion Clinic rulings and upheld in supreme Court

I guess what is good for the goose is good for the gandar. Just goes to show how closely some of these new laws need to be looked at. I thought it was a good ruling that said people had a right to enter a clinic free of harassment for at least fifty feet. The same goes for smoking. I think it is good that there are borders around entrances that are smoke free. As long as abortion protesters could be kept from certain areas it was no great leap to use the ruling against any protesters for any purpose.

[msmcghee]

7. Do you have evidence for that?

That Paul Schell was taking orders from someone (high up) in the Clinton administration.

[jberryhill]

3. So there were unattended bundles of something in the area?

The removal doesn't sound politically motivated. Was there some right wing editorial content of the newspaper that was critical of Clinton or something?

Maybe it's just me, but when I see unattended packages or luggage in public spaces, I sort of move away from them.

[Celebration]

4. according to the article

This has a lot to do with the Lantern and the university................it has not been a happy time between them. Clinton security was just an excuse to get rid of some unflattering things said in the newspapers about the school of journalism.

It seems like Clinton security was "used."