Mac VerStandig met his critics head-on and both sides refused to budge.
VerStandig, the editor-in-chief of The Badger Herald, was part of a panel discussion Tuesday sponsored by the Dean of Students’ office to discuss the Badger Herald’s decision to reprint a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. Publication of the cartoon and others like it in a Danish newspaper last year has led to international furor and deadly riots in several countries.
Multiple experts and student representatives weighed in on the issue at Bascom Hall, but the central focus of the night belonged to the heated and often contentious debate between VerStandig and those at the panel discussion and in the audience.