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Show Page 3 Ingredients make scapegoat (CPS) It never stops. Take a conservative town, a nearby college, an ironclad student government, an administration that scares the pants off the school newspaper, and a campus prostitution ring. What've you got? One more student scapegoat waiting to be skewered for hanging on to his principles. Ned Tolbert could tell you all about it. Tolbert is currently facing charges that could lead to his expulsion from the University of the Pacific, a small school in Stockton, California. What could he have done to raise such a ruckus at this expensive private school? Well, last spring, a couple weeks after he became editor of the Pacifican, Tolbert decided to run a story that uncovered a campus prostitution ring, allegedly operated by several women who needed money to pledge sororities. The reporter, who refused to take a byline, claimed two confirmed sources would verify the accusations. The ex-editor, faculty advisor and editorial board of the Pacifican all agreed that the story should be printed. And so Ned Tolbert did run the damning article and the natives tried to chase him out of town. He was immediately fired by the Student Senate and notified by the administration that his status at the school was suddenly uncertain. The Senate then appointed an interim editorial board and unwittingly chose the writer of the explosive story as editor. That person soon resigned. Tolbert cried censorship. "An upper administrator told me that the story shouldn't have been printed, even if it was 100 percent true," Tolbert explained. "He said that our newspaper doesn't run those kind of articles." Another student maintained that the substance of the story was never denied' by the administration. "No one's really looked into it. They have no reason to because it would just damage the school's image." But not everyone takes the same view of Ned's plight. Rhonda Brown, president of Pacific's Associated Students, said that Tolbert would have been fired anyway, mainly because he wouldn't comply with budget regulations. "The story changed maybe one vote," she recalled. Another source close to the controversy said that while there were budget troubles, it was more a combination of factors that did Ned in."Ned was badly misguided by the outgoing editor, he was on the way out anyway," revealed the source. Tolbert acknowledges other tensions, but stands firm in his belief that the prostitution story was the catalyst for his firing. "It was politically expedient for Rhonda Brown to give other reasons for the firing. It's pretty ridiculous, but everyone seems to know what really happened," he commented. Tolbert stresses, however, that his dismissal from the Pacifican is not the important issue. "There's more at stake here than throwing an editor off a campus, there's the whole First Amendment to think about." Because of the strong-arm tactics by the school officials, Tolbert fears that the Pacifican will be reduced to a mere social calendar, devoid of any substantive material. "Jeez, they've got a rock group on the front page this week." In a few weeks, Tolbert will stand before Pacific's Joint University Judiciary Committee to face charges ranging from "irresponsible use of the student newspaper" to "acting contrary to the best interest of the school." Vowing legal action against the University if he is expelled, Tolbert feels that the administrators "might want to let the case drifty by the wayside." Even if he's let off the hook, Ned Tolbert won't forget his crazy bout with small minds and petty politics. But then again, he also knows that these kind of shenanigans never stop. FRANKLY SPEAKING byphil frank SEE!!? VWAT A?PBm TO Gl&S WHO SHARE APARTAlBhjTZ VV77 MBM? 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