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May, 2002, Volume 12, Issue 5 - Faculty Opinion: A Forum for All Points of View PDF Print E-mail
By Charles Donaldson

    A phrase Santa Monica College students use most commonly could cost a Cerritos College campus student newspaper adviser his job, if angry college trustees get their way.

    Walk the SMC campus, and the most common word you hear is found near fuchsia in modern dictionaries.   And the most common phrase prefaces that word with "mother" or "mothers" in oedipal fashion.

    The Cerritos newspaper, Talon Marks, printed angry comments by the college's student body president, who mistakenly believed student money would pay for paving a parking lot for campus police.  She described the police as ticket-writing M.F.s in yellow vests.

    The editors reportedly debated quoting her before deciding that leaving out the M.F. phrase would not accurately report the tenor of her response.

    The trustees voiced outrage at their meeting.  They blamed the faculty adviser for allowing M.F. in the paper--which is like blaming the football coach for not running on the field to carry the ball for a touchdown.

    At last word, the Cerritos administration was supporting the adviser while waiting for the trustees' anger either to subside or for them to recall the oath they swore to uphold the U.S. and California Constitutions' unpleasant free press provisions.

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