It began when the weekly paper at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University, which administers the annual George Polk Awards in Journalism, reported in January that the student body president was resigning. It blamed the student's "academic struggles" and listed what it said were his failing grades. The school decreed that the student's rights had been violated and responded swiftly. It suspended the editor for three weeks, changed the lock of the newspaper's office and removed a faculty adviser.
Does that mean they tried to get in but could not? I guess changing the locks was necessary
That in turn prompted a terse response from the Society of Professional Journalists, which plans to sent a task force to the campus to investigate.
"We do change locks like that in Third World countries, but this is the United States of America," said Jim Highland, the Society's national vice president of campus chapter affairs and a professor of journalism at Western Kentucky University.
"We do change locks like that in Third World countries, but this is the United States of America," said Jim Highland, the Society's national vice president of campus chapter affairs and a professor of journalism at Western Kentucky University.

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