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Mount St. Mary fires journalism advisor after student paper reveals plan to dismiss more frosh

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This was in the NY Times today When student reporters at Mount St. Mary’s University, a small Catholic institution in Maryland, published an article in January that quoted the university’s president likening struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned, they knew it might get a big reaction. It finally came this week, it appears — in the form of a pink slip for the faculty adviser of the campus newspaper. The university informed the adviser, Ed Egan, that he had been disloyal and was now fired, a move seen by many on the campus in Emmitsburg as a retaliatory strike. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/us/mount-st-marys-university-firings.html Apparently at some schools you need to support the administration, no matter how offensive their comments or odious their actions...

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