More student editors sacked over cartoons
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 16 February 2006 at 14:40
Tags: International, Muhammad cartoons, Student Media
Two more student newspaper editor — this time in the United States — have been suspended after printing the controvertial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Editor-in-chief Acton Gorton and opinion editor Chuck Prochaska of the Daily Illini, an indendent student newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were suspended by the paper’s editoral board after claims they had not properly consulted other editors before deciding to run the cartoons.
