Roughly 650 copies of The Unfiltered Lens have been reported stolen at the Community College of Rhode Island, prompting speculation the thefts may be a response to Lens reports on cockroaches and food safety violations. Noting that other publications distributed on campus were noticeably left stacked in their newsstands, the paper’s editor-in-chief Robert Armistead said “it leads me to believe that it is something specific with our newspaper, and more specifically with this issue.”
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Campus Paper Reports on Cockroaches, Food Safety Violations; 650 Copies Stolen. Coincidence? (#nyc12)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on March 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Student Newspaper Theft at Texas A&M-Kingsville Linked to Story on Football Players’ Arrest
Posted in Collegemediatopia, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hundreds of copies of a student newspaper were allegedly swiped and trashed last week at Texas A&M at Kingsville, an act linked to a front-page story about the arrest of two football players and an assistant coach. It is the second football-related student newspaper theft at a school within the Texas A&M system in under [...]
UC Santa Barbara Student Newspaper ‘Plagued by Prank’ Involving Odd Swipe-and-Switch with Daily Nexus
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on April 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Bottom Line is being boosted– and replaced by its rival. – TBL is one of two student newspapers at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It competes for readers with the much older, more established Daily Nexus. Since December, a slew of TBL copies have regularly gone missing from newsstands in multiple campus buildings. [...]
Student Newspaper Sex Issue Disappears Across Campus
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper Theft, tagged Ottawa University, Sex Issue, Student Newspaper, Student Press Law Center, Washburn University on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hundreds of copies of a student newspaper’s sex issue quickly went missing last month from newsstands across campus. Editors suspect their disappearance was due to an organized theft carried out in response to racier-than-usual material. As the Student Press Law Center reports, The Ottawa Campus is the biweekly student paper at Ottawa University in Kansas, a conservative private school boasting a “Christ-centered community of grace which integrates faith, learning and life.
Student Government Steals Campus Newspapers, Accuses Editor of Libel at SUNY Brockport
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on March 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A full-blown free press war is being waged at the State University of New York in Brockport between the school’s campus newspaper and student government. – Early last month, the treasurer of the Brockport Student Government (BSG) took stacks of The Stylus that had yet to be distributed on campus in an attempt “to demonstrate [...]
Texas A&M Cadets Suspected of Student Newspaper Theft
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Student cadets have been accused of stealing thousands of copies of The Battalion at Texas A&M University “in an effort to keep an article published in Monday’s paper from being read.” – As the Battalion itself reported, members of the school’s Corps of Cadets were spotted early Monday morning in street clothes grabbing copies of [...]
Student Newspaper Theft: Thousands of Towerlight Copies Suspected Stolen
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on February 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A sizable chunk of a recent issue of The Towerlight at Towson University has been reported stolen. According to a Student Press Law Center report, Towerlight editors estimate up to 3,000 copies of the newspaper’s 10,000-copy run for a mid-February issue were taken from multiple campus racks, most prominently in the university’s student center. – As Towerlight [...]
University Press Snatcher Nabbed by FAU Police
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Florida Atlantic University police have arrested a philosophy graduate student in connection with the recent theft and trashing of The University Press. According to a UP report, Yona Rabinowitz, 25, has been charged with grand theft, trespassing, and resisting arrest. Bail has been set at $3,000. – FAU police say one other suspect remains at large [...]
Nearly 2,000 Newspapers Trashed at Florida Atlantic U.
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on November 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After a mostly crime-free semester, the thieves are suddenly back en masse within collegemediatopia. Earlier this week, close to 2,000 copies of the current issue of The University Press at Florida Atlantic University were grabbed from newsstands across campus and tossed in the trash. – As the UP itself reported in a brief article online, [...]
Breaking News: Spinnaker Papers Stolen Less Than a Week After Pacemaker Win
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on November 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Roughly 3,800 copies of The Spinnaker, the student newspaper at the University of North Florida, were stolen earlier this week. It is the largest reported theft of campus newspapers so far this semester. – The mass theft operation nabbed nearly the entire 4,000-copy print run for the paper’s current issue, amounting to an estimated $7,800 [...]
Sex and the University on Sale at Amazon Starting Today
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In fall 2003, Kate Prengaman became “Sex.” She earned the nickname on the Ultimate Frisbee field, where participants often receive names based on a defining interest or characteristic. Prengaman’s teammates began calling her “Sex” during her freshman year at the College of William & Mary, not long after the debut of “Behind Closed Doors,” her [...]
College Media Censorship: Year In Review
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on July 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
College media censorship has a lot in common with Mystique. The mutant supervillain associated with the X-Men is best known for her duplicitous shape-shifting aimed at doing harm. Over the past academic year, a Censor supervillain similarly known for adopting many identities and tactics has attempted to stomp out student press expression nationwide. – The [...]
Student Editor: Someone Stole All Copies of Current Issue
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Newspaper Theft, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every copy of the current Current, the student newspaper at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., has vanished. Editor Nathan Giebel (recently featured in a CMM student journalist spotlight) suspects theft. So do school officials. – In his words, “I think the main question on everyone’s mind at the moment is: Why? Did we print something [...]
Student Newspaper Column on Rape Spurs Apology, Debate
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft, tagged American University, College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism, Student Newspaper on April 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
One of the most high-profile controversies in collegemediatopia so far this semester is currently playing out at American University. The 30-second recap of the past six days: Controversial column touching on rape published in campus newspaper. Outraged students and online readers. Strong words of protest and even some newspaper trashing. Media coverage. Statements issued by the [...]
Student Newspapers Stolen in Response to “BEER” Article
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft, tagged College Media, Journalism, Newspaper Theft, Student Newspaper on April 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A group of undergraduates at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota recently carried out a “theft by relocation” operation, grabbing roughly 300 copies of The Gustavian Weekly campus newspaper from the centrally-located student center and moving them to out-of-the-way dormitories. – As The Reporter at Minnesota State, Mankato, dutifully reported, “The newspapers . . . were a [...]
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