Student hacks slam student hacks
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 10 February 2006 at 14:17
Tags: Muhammad cartoons, Student Media
In a leader published today, the Oxford Student newspaper has rounded on its counterpart at Cardiff University, Gair Rhydd, for publishing the cartoon
showing the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban.
“The Cardiff University student newspaper Gair Rhydd’s decision to be the first and only newspaper in Britain to print the cartoons is nothing short of infantile attention-seeking,” the Student thundered in an attack on its rival for annual student journalism prizes.
Thousands of copies of the Cardiff student newspaper were recalled and pulped this week after it ran the cartoon. The editor, Tom Wellingham, and two other student journalists were suspended by their students’ union. Wellingham is reported to be ‘devastated’ by his suspension.
Meanwhile, back amidst the dreaming spires, four editors of the Hertford college magazine Simpkins “faced university action” after an issue of the rag had to be removed from circulation “for publishing potentially offensive material”.
Tags: Muhammad cartoons, Student Media
