Hawaii ReporterInanity From a U.H. Activist and the Honolulu Weekly
By Stuart K. Hayashi, 9/16/2003
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Ka Leo O Hawaii accusing U.H. students of censorship and attacking the first amendment, when they complained about Ka Leo Opinions editor Lance Collins wasting their student dues by using that money to print cartoons saying "Hitler Wasn't Such a Bad Guy."
Collins "explained" that the cartoons weren't bigoted, because they did not actually endorse racism; they were only meant to insinuate that all non-leftists are racists who admire Hitler. Oh, thanks Lance, how unbigoted. Yes, he actually did expect students to swallow this.
Collins didn't pull it off, but hardly anyone questioned Professor Hartwell's assumption that it's free speech to take the student's money to run a student newspaper that is supposed to be the student's property, and then completely ignore them when they complain about their money being wasted so abominably.
That would indicate that the U.H. student newspaper was not in the possession of the students at the time, but was commandeered by the Opinions editor with tacit approval from academic advisor Jay Hartwell. (Much to the relief of the U.H. students who tired of the vulgarity of the U.H. newspaper's Opinions section in spring 2003, the paper got rid of Collins and hired a new Opinions editor.)
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It is not free speech to successfully lobby a government to expropriate money .... and public-fund-wasters like Lance Collins remain publicly unrepentant. ...
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