Le Moyne College Condemned for Pulling Student Newspaper's Adviser
FIRE Believes Faculty Mentor Was Yanked to Punish Paper for Criticizing the School
By Jim Brown
May 12, 2006

(AgapePress) - A Catholic college in New York State is being accused of unjustly punishing a student newspaper and its faculty adviser for criticizing the school. A spokesman with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says the adviser's dismissal by Le Moyne College in Syracuse reflects a growing trend on U.S. campuses toward administrative control of student press.

Professor Alan Fischler had served as faculty adviser for Le Moyne's student newspaper, The Dolphin, ever since he was chosen by its staff in 1996. Also, just last year he wrote a column for the paper, voicing disapproval over the college's dismissal of graduate education major Scott McConnell after he penned a paper expressing his conservative views.

Le Moyne has now "released" Fischler from his position with The Dolphin, reportedly telling him the school wants a "more hands-on" adviser. The professor, who continues to teach at the college, will be replaced by a faculty adviser selected by the administration, a move that has prompted a strike by the student staff of the campus newspaper in protest. the rest