David Spett

The editor at large of one of our sponsored publications was arrested in late September for chalking on campus sidewalks at the University of Arizona.

The editor, Evan Lisull, was charged with a class one misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $2,500 fine. He was ultimately able to avoid jail time.

Lisull wrote “chalk is speech” and “freedom of expression” on campus sidewalks. He was expressing opposition to the arrest of his friend, Jacob Miller, a graduate student at UA who chalked during a protest of UA’s budget cuts.

Lisull is editor at large of the CP-sponsored Kosmopolitan Online at Kalamazoo College. He’s written a regular column for UA’s school newspaper, the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and he edits his own blog on campus issues at DesertLamp.com.

See more at the National Student News Service and the Arizona Daily Wildcat.

(Cross-posted at CampusProgress.org)

Rachel Fauber herself!

Amid a scandal at Towson University’s school newspaper, The Towerlight, my summer intern Rachel Fauber won a special election to become editor in chief. Congratulations, Rachel!

The Towerlight’s editorial board selected Rachel after the former editor in chief resigned in the middle of her term. Controversy erupted within and beyond Towson’s campus after that editor published an anonymous sex column encouraging mutual masturbation. (Gasp!)

Gawker made light of the situation, but I (and everyone else at Campus Progress) congratulate the talented, charming Rachel on her promotion. We have no doubt she’ll accomplish great things, and we wish her all the best.

Further reading: Campus Progress’ earlier coverage of the student sex column “movement” put the controversy at The Towerlight into perspective.

(Cross-posted at CampusProgress.org)