A thick file at The Badger Herald offices suggests history is repeating itself.

The file is labeled “cartoon controversy,” and it is full of articles from past run-ins with readers at the UW-Madison student newspaper. Such as the 1990 cartoon that portrayed Allah, the Islamic God, as the movie character Eraserhead, and the 1993 comic strip that included a drawing that supposedly looked like the racist Sambo character.

A thick file at The Badger Herald offices suggests history is repeating itself.
The file is labeled “cartoon controversy,” and it is full of articles from past run-ins with readers at the UW-Madison student newspaper. Such as the 1990 cartoon that portrayed Allah, the Islamic God, as the movie character Eraserhead, and the 1993 comic strip that included a drawing that supposedly looked like the racist Sambo character.

The file is about to grow.