The Exponent
Student journalists from Purdue University’s The Exponent went to rival Indiana University on Friday to deliver a special print edition in solidarity with the now out-of-print Indiana Daily Student , according to The Herald-Times .
Last week, IU administrators decided to suspend the print publication of the IDS and fired the director of student media, Jim Rodenbush, after he refused to censor an Oct. 16 homecoming edition of the paper.
Staff members from The Exponent distributed 3,000 copies of the solidarity edition around IU’s Bloomington campus. The paper’s front cover read, “WE STUDENT JOURNALISTS MUST STAND TOGETHER” and contained op-eds from the editors in chief of both newsrooms as well as reporting on the state of student journalism at bo