The ultimate test of any belief system isn’t what is said, but what is done. Indiana University may boast “Light and Truth” (Lux et Veritas), but its suppression of the Indiana Daily Student and firing of its adviser points to something darker.

 The battle between IU administrators and the newspaper’s staff is not about budget deficits and shifts from paper to pixels. It’s a referendum on whether a university will preserve press freedom, regardless of platform, or force compliance from a student-run news source.

The chain of events is not in dispute. Ahead of Homecoming, IDS editors say university administrators ordered the special print edition to include only “homecoming” content, excluding general news coverage. When the paper’s adviser, Jim Rodenbush, also an instructor at the Media

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