Student Editor Fired for Hanging Noose -- Controversy Erupts

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www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003673243

NEW YORK -- An attempt at motivating writers to hit their deadlines created an uproar at a Minneapolis college.

Gabriel Keith, an assistant editor at the City College Times at Minneapolis Community & Technical College, used a drawstring from a hooded sweatshirt to make a noose, from which he hung a message about making deadlines in late October.

The tactic did not go over well in a newsroom that included several black students. Keith took the noose down five minutes later, but the ensuing hubbub led to his firing from the paper and a dispute between the editor-in-chief and the adviser.

[rodeodance]

1. what is it with stupid people lately!

[aikoaiko]

2. This story must be a fabrication since it happened above the Mason Dixon line

:sarcasm:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Notice that they fired him above the mason dixon line.

Instead of electing him senator.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Great.

It's like the blackface football game at Oregon State.

"I had no idea they'd take it the wrong way!"

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. delete

wrong spot