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Virginia Tech will not pull funding for the publisher of the Collegiate Times, nor will it ban student organizations from buying ads with university funds, as an advisory group had proposed. The University Commission on Student Affairs complained that the paper’s comments policy has allowed its website to become “a big graffiti wall” for posts that can be “very racist, sexist, xenophobic and alarmist.”
> Earlier: Editor says dispute is about control of content
> Editor says comments are “community moderated”
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Virginia Tech decides against penalizing campus paper for comments policy
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