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RIT Magazine Reporter's April Fools' Issue "Distorter" pulled from stands, website

trogdor9trogdor9
edited March 2009 in Flamewars
Here's the story from Reporter's website.

A Facebook group lists these as sources for the PDF, for reference purposes. One of them must work:
https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Image:Distorter.pdf
http://www.savefile.com/files/2057456
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5UXNRBZG
http://www.easy-share.com/1904222804/distorter.pdf
http://rapidshare.com/files/214352108/distorter.pdf.html
http://www.filefactory.com/file/af77aee/n/distorter_pdf
http://stashbox.org/466814/distorter.pdf
http://uploading.com/files/FH6R3N80/distorter.pdf.html
So, obviously, since RIT is a private organization, the first amendment is mostly irrelevant. The question remains, however, should the RIT administration have pulled the magazine from the stands and website?

It is worth noting that Friday was an Accepted Students Open House, with many incoming freshmen (or potential freshmen) roaming the school who may not understand that this is the April 1 issue.

Comments

  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Wow tough call. On the one hand, it would have been awesome just to release it. On the other...Open house...Kinda dicey.
  • CremlianCremlian
    edited April 2009
    Further proof that after I left RIT, it went down hill :-p

    Nevermind, they might as well pull it... Wasn't very funny.
    Post edited by Cremlian on
  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    Meh. Private institutions ! = very few student rights. Plus, if they weren't publishing something true (the real news), I don't think it's protected. What's the line between satire and libel?
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    Meh. Private institutions ! = very few student rights. Plus, if they weren't publishing something true (the real news), I don't think it's protected. What's the line between satire and libel?
    I heard a rumor that a big reason was a joke they had near the end.
    What's the difference between Hitler and Michael Phelps?
    Michael Phelps can finish a race
    I did enjoy a few parts of it. The librarians' prostitution ring, the game design department accepting credits for WoW levels, and "SG DOES NOTHING" all tickled me.
  • AtheriShadowAtheriShadow
    I only ever read the Reporter for the crime reports. Oh, and the one or two that my photo somehow managed to be in.
  • AprecheApreche
    Stupid ass Reporter. It's just an advertisement for RIT's printing department. That's why it's a full color fancy magazine with shit for content. If you are an RIT student, you owe it to yourself to go over to U of R and grab a copy of their newspaper. It's printed on newsprint, but it is fucking loaded with content. It's what a real college newspaper should be.

    I really think that the only life that newspapers have left are free and extremely targeted papers with a narrow geographic circulation, like college papers. The fact that RIT, a high-tech futuristic sort of school, has weekly full-color toilet paper, says a lot.
  • StarfoxStarfox
    Wisconsin actually has TWO worthwhile student newspapers.
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