Misjudging

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203413304577086981940609346.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLETopStories

Apparently I misjudged YU: They cut funding because so many students were offended. I don't think cutting funding from a newspaper because they publish one article that upsets students is healthy though, especially since maybe part of college is having newspapers that publish controversial or upsetting articles - as long as those articles are not specifically attacking a group of people, I don't think funding should be cut. Attacking groups of people, is of course unacceptable (and by attacking I don't mean an intelligent critique of a frat party, I mean a "frat bros are stupid" type of article), and funding should be cut from said groups. Having a literary peice in which someone acts contrary to students' values however, is not reason to cut off funding - whether the peice was autobiography or fiction, people are allowed to either a) confess to acting differently than you think they should have or b) write fiction in which characters act differently than your moral code mandates.

If the student body is upset about that, its their problem, and we should ask ourselves what we are doing that an MO student body can't stomach seeing a possibly-fictive story in which someone breaks halacha.