Friday, January 13, 2006

Viking News editors tell their side of the story

Scott Coppola, editor-in-chief, and Alberto D. Morales, news and photography editor, of the Viking News wrote an op-ed piece that appeared in Friday's Asbury Park Press. Here is an excerpt and links to the online version...

Students are focal point of OCC adviser's ouster
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/13/06

BY SCOTT COPPOLA
AND ALBERTO D. MORALES
In the interests of accuracy, we are compelled to respond to the falsehoods by Tara Kelly, vice president of college advancement at Ocean County College, in her Dec. 28 commentary "OCC adviser ousted for not implementing changes."

First is the lie it is "very unfair to drag our students into an issue that has nothing to do with them." We are the heart of this issue. What the students published in the Viking News led to the removal of Karen Bosley as newspaper adviser.

If Kelly's assertion "we don't care" about stories critical of the administration or mistakes is the case, why were some of us summoned to the president's office and subjected to, in a meeting we were not allowed to record, a tirade from (OCC President) Jon Larson over a prize-winning story published last year, a story critical of a decision he had made. Larson demanded a "retraction" or he would "take action."

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