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FREE FOR ALL Call 864-0500
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Hi Free-for-All, this is the cast of "Pageant". I just wanted to let you know you spelled our show's name wrong on the front page. Thank you.
My mom just called me to tell me that the Spice Girls have announced their world tour. Oh my God, I am so excited. Love
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It's Daunte Culpepper, not Jaunte Culpepper.
Editor's note: Oops. My bad. I forgot we don't do editor's notes anymore.
》 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Obscenity column raises questions
The guest column, that appeared in Wednesday's University Daily Kansan, "Government shouldn't control public's intake of profanity," certainly sparked discussion in the newsroom.
Taylor Miller's column made an interesting point that the government shouldn't have control over what profanity people are exposed to.
For me, the column raised the issue of the role journalists — and newspapers in particuar — play in the obscenity discussion. For example, should The Kansan not
print obscenity in the paper at all or only on the opinion page or in Free
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
KANSAN EDITOR
RSCHNEIDER@KANSAN.COM
The answer to speech restriction questions aren't easy to answer. Especially on this page, people should feel
for All?
free to speak their minds. However, The Kansan has the right to determine what part of Free for All comments, letters to the editor and guest columns appear in print.
The answer is simply that there isn't one. Decisions about obscene language are made on a case-by-case basis — and that's the way it should be. Just as Miller said in his column, decisions about obscentiy in society should be left to the people, not to the government.
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