Show Big dig Man on campus I i Jeren W. W Canning in Editor-in-Chief rin-f rin V Vr r O This probably means nothing to most readers but to collegiate journalists it In recent weeks the University of Utah's tah's student newspaper The Daily Utah Chronicle has come under fire for various things Most notably two main issues arose The use of ofa a rape victims victim's name in inan inan inan an article and the possible revocation of the papers paper's independent status To collegiate journalists independence is a very big issue For years the has held pride being The University of Utah's Independent Voice and following in their footsteps nearly 10 years ago The Globe broke out and became independent The story of independence goes like this The fellow media outlets KUTE radio station and television program have fell on hard times With the increasing in popularity to advertisers the university has been toying with the idea of joining the three mediums into one entity This is similar to what Student Media a joint operation of the media outlets but the difference is the Student Media Center is also independent from the college The Us U's proposed I i plan would seemingly reIncorporate reincorporate reincorporate re- re incorporate the newspaper under university control All of these plans came cameon cameon cameon on the heels of a article that used the name of a rape victim with the victims victim's permission The victim however pulled back the permission after the article had been printed At that point the best the could do was pull the article off their Web site A few years back Brigham Young University's Daily Universe folded back under the university's control and according to BYUs BYU's adviser they have never retracted an article since the paper changed hands But a student journalists journalist's mind begs to ask how many articles have been stifled before making it to print Now The Globe has been a part of some pretty heavy controversies recently but we have never and should never be bein bein bein in danger of folding back under college control With our independent status we serve as the watchdog of college undertakings To put it in easy to understand words if a newspaper is controlled by bya a college the paper cannot report on college events because it would be a conflict of interest Although the and The Globe have a natured good-natured rivalry going on we stand behind our journalistic brothers and sisters The must be independent from university contro control ij From the desk of The Globe in Editor-in-Chief to the entire staff of The Daily Utah Chronicle Ve have your back |