Central Washington University: Administrators Steal Newspapers in Response to Coverage of University Budget Cuts
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Central Washington University
Case Overview
FIRE Victory closed
In April 2022, two Central Washington University administrators threw away stacks of student newspaper The Observer to prevent prospective students who were visiting campus from seeing a story about university budget cuts. On April 25, FIREwrote to CWU explaining that this confiscation constituted not only theft, but also First Amendment viewpoint-based discrimination 鈥 鈥渁n egregious form鈥 of censorship. After 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 letter, CWU apologized to The Observer.