PORTLAND, Ore.— A student editor at a college campus-run humor publication in Portland says he and others plan to be more cautious when making decisions about the newspaper’s content after running a phony article that said students at another college killed all the Jews at their school.
Glenn Harrison, a student at Reed College and an editor and writer for The Pamphlette, said in an e-mail to The Oregonian that the student-run newspaper’s staff has repeatedly apologized for hurting or offending people on campus with the article, which was meant as satire.
“We were negligent as editors and members of the community,” he wrote. “We are now more aware of the effect of our writing and we will be exercising more cautious editorial judgment going forward.”
The article appeared last week and it took aim at students at Lewis & Clark College, another private liberal-arts school in Portland. Anti-Semitism is a sensitive issue at Lewis & Clark, where swastika graffiti was found in the library bathroom a few weeks ago.
