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Tuesday, April 11, 1995
NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Chicago students continue to protest their newspaper
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — College students in the sixth day of a sit-in at the offices of their school newspaper said yesterday they would continue their protest about language and news coverage they consider demeaning to Blacks.
More than a dozen DePaul University students began occupying the weekly paper's office Wednesday. The paper wasn't published as scheduled Friday.
The protesters said the DePaulia perpetuated negative stereotypes about Blacks in an article about a disturbance at a dance sponsored by a Black student group.
The article relied exclusively on security and police reports, which identified people as "M-B" or "F-B" for male or female Blacks and "M-W" or "F-W" for male or female
whites. The students said that the terms perpetuated degrading stereotypes.
The protest was the first in five years to halt publication of a college newspaper, said the Student Press Law Center, a Washington-based advocacy group for student journalists.
The newspaper's editor, Zack Martin, said last week he stood by the article.
He said the university administration decided to prohibit the newspaper from publishing until its staff would agree to some of the protesters' demands. But DePaul representative Leda Hanin said yesterday that the decision was an agreement not to publish between the administration and newspaper staff members.
Protector Dion Williams said students hoped to meet again yesterday with the administration to discuss their demands, which include forcing the newspaper to devote one page weekly to minority issues.
Andrea Mannings, another protester, and DePaul's president, the Rev. John P. Minogue, met late into the night Friday to try resolve the dispute but didn't reach an agreement.
"We want us to go into further negotiations with the DePaulia staff," Mannings said. "At this point we're not satisfied. He's dancing around with words."
The university has no plans to eject the students, said another DePaul representative, Denise Matson.
"The university looks upon this as a learning experience for the students," she said.
Illustration offends Christian group
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A New Yorker cover depicting a business-suited Easter Bunny crucified on a tax form has uset some Christians.
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said yesterday that the illustration was insulting to Christians and particularly outrageous during the week leading up to EasterSunday.
The illustration, by cartoonist Art Spiegelman, shows a white rabbit in a suit and tie. He is in a crucifixion pose — arms extended, head sagging, legs together. His pockets are pulled inside out to signify his
penury. The image is superimposed on one of Form 1040A. The title: "Theology of the Tax Cut."
In a statement, Spiegelman said his drawing was inspired by the fact that April 15 — the traditional tax deadline — falls this year on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter.
"As a citizen, I don't actually believe we are too high taxed (although I believe our taxes are not being well used). Nor, as a grownup, do I believe in the Easter Bunny," Spiegelman said. "But, as a cartoonist, I believe in the power of images to provoke thought."
Two years ago, Spiegelman's Valentine's Day cover of a Hasidic Jew kissing a Black woman provoked anger among members of both groups.
"The New Yorker could have engaged in legitimate criticism of those pundits who treat tax cuts reverentially without simultaneously offending Christians," Donohue said in a statement. "That chose not to do so shows not merely poor taste, it shows flat disregard for the sensibilities of Christians."
Officials of several other Christian groups either had not seen the cover or had no immediate comment on it.
In a statement, the weekly magazine described the drawing as "a pointed allegory about faith, fantasy and the politics of the moment."
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