Sweet! My former newspaper in the news!

Little known TSO fact: I was the Sports Editor for The Minuteman in 1990-1991. As the Sports Editor, I authored and/or edited exactly zero articles. But, I do appear in the editions as an editor.

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AMHERST, Mass., April 16, 2009—Multiple First Amendment violations have rocked the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus in recent days. UMass has done nothing about the videotaped theft of and, later, the student government’s official censorship of The Minuteman, a conservative campus newspaper that mocked a student government official. Worse, last night, when a student senator offered a bill to reverse the unconstitutional censorship of The Minuteman, the Senate’s speaker had the UMass police throw him out (video of this incident is expected soon). These assaults on free speech came in the wake of last month’s disgraceful episode in which a speech by columnist Don Feder was shouted down by hecklers while UMass police officers did nothing. The many aggrieved parties on this out-of-control campus have come to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.

This stuff happened constantly when I was there. I’ll never forget our “Strait Pride Rally” where there were about 8 of us, and Morton Downey Jr, and about 30,000 of our favorite same sex couples yelling at us, throwing objects and then engaging in a “kiss-in.”

My chief job as Minuteman editor was to play the diagonally stripped country in the first Risk computer game. And we played for literally DAYS at a time.

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