What if the editors reply that all newspapers have the right to censor unacceptable submissions?
The editors must be informed that, while privately owned publishing firms have complete discretion to reject material submitted to them, college newspapers, being funded by the hard-earned tax dollars of the parents who send their children to such colleges, are virtually obligated to print all student letters. Campus editorship is a training ground in a publicly owned newspaper for eventual employment in, most likely, a privately owned and funded newspaper. Editors are way out of line if they forget who pays the campus newspaper’s bills and, instead, reject submission as if their campus newspaper paid its own costs.
