FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Upset over a college newspaper editorial about President Bush that used an obscenity, conservative students at Colorado State University have started printing their own newspaper.
A group calling itself the CSU College Republicans on Monday distributed the Ram Republic, which they are calling the “Conservative Voice of Colorado State University.”
Editor Bobby Carson said the group had already been thinking about starting a journal when the campus’s main publication, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, published a four-word editorial that directed a four-letter word at Bush.
The editor, J. David McSwane, was reprimanded by the campus student publication board.
“That accelerated our efforts,” Carson said.
Carson, a 26-year-old senior majoring in political science, said he’s not happy with the state of American journalism.
The first press run of the eight-page publication had 1,000 copies, but more will be printed, Carson said.
The publication will be partly financed by ads but Carson said he paid for some of the printing costs for the first issue.
