Marquette University’s student newspaper, the Tribune, received nine awards in this year’s Wisconsin Newspaper Association competition. Yet the dean of the school’s College of Communications, in refusing to renew the contract of the faculty adviser to the publication, claims its quality has declined in the past year.
In fact, it appears that the quality of the paper is less a concern than its independence. Marquette President Robert Wild has been poking at the paper for some time for, well, acting like a real newspaper.
…the whole controversy serves as a reminder that there is much to celebrate about the relatively responsible relationship of the University of Wisconsin-Madison administration with the school’s two daily newspapers, the Daily Cardinal and the Badger Herald.