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SPJ president voices concern over possible removal of college media adviser
5/7/2012
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For Immediate Release
Contacts:
John Ensslin, SPJ President, 973-513-5632, spjprez@gmail.com
Abby Henkel, SPJ Communications Manager, 317-927-8000 ext. 215, ahenkel@spj.org
INDIANAPOLIS – John Ensslin, president of the Society of Professional Journalists, expressed concern about the possible removal of Dave Copeland, student media adviser for The Comment at Bridgewater State University.
The letter (included below) sent to Dana Mohler-Faria, president of the university, addresses reports that Copeland might be removed following the controversy over a student editor’s decision to print the name of a sexual assault victim who spoke publicly on campus.
Ensslin acknowledges that although the student journalists are learning the hard way about consequences, actions to remove their adviser would teach them a terrible lesson: “that the cost of their free speech is an adviser’s job.”
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