The Daily Campus - Controversies

Controversies

The Daily Campus has been involved in a number of controversies over the years.

• 1960—Editor-in-Chief Dick McGuirk is expelled from the University of Connecticut shortly after refusing to apologize for material published in The Daily Scampus, a yearly satirical issue, which had been deemed salacious by Undergraduate Student Government and university officials.
• 2000—Controversial David Horowitz full-page advertisement calling slave reparations "racist" runs in The Daily Campus and a number of other college newspapers. Students hold a protest outside the newspaper's offices, and argue to the university administration that they oppose having the $14 mandatory fee to fund the newspaper.
• 2003—About 9,000 copies of The Daily Campus are stolen from locations around campus and the newspaper's loading dock one day after a column written by weekly columnist Josh Levinson was printed that criticized college cultural centers as being exclusionary. Two of the suspects were identified thanks to security camera footage in UConn's Co-op, but The Daily Campus did not press charges.
• 2005—The Daily Campus building is broken into and equipment, including flat-screen monitors, a server and digital cameras, worth approximately $30,000 is stolen. No arrests were ever made.