Student Newspaper Apologizes For Haiti-Related Sex And Text Cartoon

Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist caught another minor student newspaper-related cartoon controversy that had completely snuck by me. This time it's a Florida newspaper called The Independent Florida Alligator serving the University of Florida, that published the cartoon at right. This led to complaints the blend of sex and texting and charity was disrespectful of the situation in Haiti, complaints that engineered a subsequent apology from those involved. College Media Matters also reported on the incident. While the fact that these are independent newspaper links this incident to one a couple of weeks ago on the Notre Dame campus, the Notre Dame cartoon seemed to jump Carl Lewis-style over the line of bad taste and into dangerous ground while this one seems more goofily disconnected from a real-world consequence. No word on any additional apology for the cartoon just not being very good.
 
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