In 1994, commentary columnist Jennifer Nielsen called the school's affirmative action program "racist". This led to a serious of protests among [[liberal]] and [[minority students]] who demanded that the undegraduate fee for the paper be eliminated (it wasn't). However, this piece did not represent the paper's opinion, only Nielsen's. As the editor pointed out, only the editorial is the paper's opinion, and the other articles just represent the individual columnists' opinions.<ref>[http://articles.courant.com/1994-10-06/news/9410060277_1_minority-students-student-newspaper-undergraduate-fees]</ref> | In 1994, commentary columnist Jennifer Nielsen called the school's affirmative action program "racist". This led to a serious of protests among [[liberal]] and [[minority students]] who demanded that the undegraduate fee for the paper be eliminated (it wasn't). However, this piece did not represent the paper's opinion, only Nielsen's. As the editor pointed out, only the editorial is the paper's opinion, and the other articles just represent the individual columnists' opinions.<ref>[http://articles.courant.com/1994-10-06/news/9410060277_1_minority-students-student-newspaper-undergraduate-fees]</ref> |