Hundreds of copies of the N.C. Central University student newspaper have been found either moved without permission or trashed.
After Campus Echo, the student-led newspaper, released two controversial stories in October and November, there were several incidences of illicit moving and trashing of copies in bulk.
Newspaper theft is considered a crime.
The offenders have not been identified because, according to administrators, campus security cameras do not overlook the newspaper boxes in the buildings where the papers were moved.
In early October, the newspaper published “Business School Blues”— an article about the dismissal of the NCCU business school dean.
After publication, boxes containing issues of the school’s paper were covertly moved from the business school to obscure locations.
A month later, a second instance occurred after an article titled “Sociability Shortage in Sociology” was published. The story detailed an incident in a teacher’s sociology class in which the paper reports she called a student racist.
According to the article, the issue led to a student’s dismissal.
Hundreds of copies of the paper were taken from two buildings and trashed in a dumpster on the university’s campus.
