NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE: The Boston Globe is on the story, and reports that the editor in chief- who likely wrote for the paper for years and just took over as EIC this week- has resigned as well. In addition, due to demands from the BBSO to put a statement in the paper, the publication of the new issue has been delayed until Friday. Some are also calling for the paper to be shut down, which is the usual campus anti-First Amendment hooey; as someone who wrote for that paper for four years, was a columnist for three, and an editor for one, I'll certainly have something to say about that.
I'm not planning to blog much more about this, because it appears to be (or at least, should be) a dead issue. But one observation- I really think these protestors need to put things in perspective: two weeks ago a Brandeis student, Mary Jagoda, was tragically killed in a kayaking accident off of Cape Cod. Isn't the death of one of their classmates something that's much more worthy of these peoples' attention and anger than something someone wrote in a silly newspaper column?
(Speaking of Mary, her family has requested that donations in her memory be made to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, as her older brother Jake was a Cantor employee who perished in the 9/11 attacks. Contact the fund at this e-mail address for more information on how to contribute.)