Colorado College Editor Faces Hearing Next Week Over Editorial

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DENVER Complaints filed in the wake of four-word editorial about President Bush that included an obscenity have merit and will result in a disciplinary hearing next week that could end in the firing of the student editor of the Colorado State University newspaper.

The Board of Student Communications, which oversees student media at the school, decided Thursday to proceed with a formal, closed door hearing Oct. 4 regarding the fate of J. David McSwane, editor in chief of The Rocky Mountain Collegian.

A public hearing Wednesday to hear complaints attracted hundreds of students, many who spoke in support of McSwane and his decision to publish an editorial Friday about the Tasering of a student at the University of Florida that read: "Taser this: (Expletive) Bush."

James Landers, a journalism and technical communications faculty member on the board who signed the letter, said after the public meeting he's received about 300 e-mails, with about 70 percent in opposition to McSwane's editorial.


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1. I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

Leaning towards laughter...but this is just so embarassing!