Central Connecticut president announces details of committee reviewing student editorial process

After community outcry over a satirical newspaper article advocating rape, the president of Central Connecticut State University has created a committee that review will the publication’s operating procedures to determine how it can better practice “journalistic integrity,” according to a Feb. 22 statement from President Jack Miller.

The committee will review The Recorder‘s constitution, the roles of its editors and adviser and its funding model and will compare these aspects to peer institutions. It will then make a recommendation to the university community, according to the statement.

Miller’s statement maintains that the committee is not an attempt to censor the newspaper, but rather is an effort to ensure that “students have the opportunity to learn that journalism is far more than putting on paper whatever thoughts come to mind.”

The committee will comprise university employees as well as students, according to the statement, and a spokesman said the group will include a representative of the newspaper.