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BOULDER-[[[The duties of the entire opinion-section staff at the University of Colorado's Campus Press newspaper have been suspended in the wake of fervent outcry about a student column that said Asians "hate us all," school officials said Thursday.Meanwhile, the columnist who sparked the firestorm, Max Karson,(picture left) defended himself in a letter to the Camera in which he describes CU as a "racist hell-hole."]]](he's got to be joking.....sigh....he is the one that STARTED all this saga...)A statement posted on the student newspaper's Web site Wednesday singled out Karson as the only person suspended from contributing to the online-only newspaper's content.But CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard on Thursday said all of the regular opinion-writing staff will be reassigned to other duties while changes are made."Max has been an editorial page assistant editor, and all of the duties of all of the editorial page editors have been suspended because the editorial page itself at the Campus Press has been suspended pending a restructuring and re-envisioning of what they're going to do with it," Hilliard said.[[[Karson sparked a public outrage last week when the Campus Press published his column, "If it's war the Asians want ... It's war they'll get."]]]{{{{{The column has called into question how the student-run newspaper class within the School of Journalism and Mass Communication reviews content before publishing it.Hilliard said two editorial page editors, a handful of page designers and about 68 other students who are required to write an opinion column as part of the class curriculum will all work on other projects until the paper finishes a series of planned reforms-including the formation of new opinion and ethics policies.Hilliard said Karson and the other opinion editors will remain on the staff at the Campus Press and can write for other sections of the paper in the meantime.}}}}}[[[[[[Karson, reached by phone Thursday, said he had no comment.However, his letter to the Camera described his contempt for the opposition to him and the Campus Press."Sometimes it's necessary to offend in order to provoke thought about difficult subjects," Karson wrote. "For example, in my 'Asians' piece, I poked fun at Asian stereotypes for the purpose of mocking racist white people who never bother to understand or even consider Asian cultures and race relations at the University of Colorado....?????...."I can't stand that the people who experience racism every day would rather waste their energy on demanding the suppression of clearly protected speech instead of adding their own speech to the mix."....??????....]]]]]]Karson-who describes himself in the letter as a "dorky, smart-mouthed kid with authority problems"-goes on to criticize university officials,who he says run the "racist hell-hole we call CU.""You think that if you shut me up, you'll be one step closer to the 'hate-free environment' you dream of," Karson wrote.Karson's attorney, Dan Williams, said the Campus Press statement about his client's suspension was misleading and damaging to Karson's reputation. The statement was removed from the newspaper's Web site Thursday morning and later replaced with a different version that said the opinion section had been suspended."Max Karson was not suspended by the Campus Press," Williams said. "The fact is Max's duties were suspended, as with all opinion writers."Hilliard agreed the Campus Press statement was unclear."The Campus Press wanted to indicate (Karson) would not be contributing to the editorial page," Hilliard said. "I think it's a clear case of trying to quell people's concerns."Campus Press Editor-in-Chief Cassie Hewlings did not return phone calls.Hilliard said an announcement likely will be made sometime next week about what measures the CU journalism faculty plans to take to help better oversee the publication.http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/29/embattled-columnist-calls-cu-racist-hell-hole/
PS:Poor Karson besides all the self described problems he's got,he has serious "judgement problems"also...
As in the days of Noah...
