As previously reported by CR, Quinnipiac University President John L. Lahey has declared that no university employees talk to student reporters at the Quad News, an independent campus news site.
The Hartford Courant sat down with Quad News editors this week.
A group of editors at the established campus newspaper, The Chronicle, walked out last year when Lahey told them they could not post news to the Web in advance of publication, which is weekly. Lahey eventually relented, but the editors had already started the site.
From the HC column: “”Our main focus is to give students the opportunity to get the news and learn what is going on, on campus,” said Quad editor in chief Jason Braff.
We met on a park bench near campus because the university doesn’t like people like me prowling around the grounds.
Braff, a senior from New Jersey who spent the summer as an intern for the Journal News in Westchester County, told me it’s been difficult to be branded a traitor.
But, he said, “it’s worth it to me. We are standing up for the right thing.”
For this, the university has threatened to evict the chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, an officially sanctioned student group, if it keeps assisting the renegade Braff and his Quad News comrades.”
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