Student Government Wanted To Defund Newspaper Over Satire
In 2015, SUNY-Buffalo’s student newspaper The Record published an April Fool’s edition with satirical articles. Members of the United Student Government tried to freeze student funds allocated to the group over the newspaper, but later backtracked. According to Campus Reform they ” backed off their decision to freeze funding for the student newspaper after an April Fools’ Day edition made some students and faculty uncomfortable. The Buffalo State student council, United Students Government (USG), had chosen to freeze The Record’s budget and remove all 2,000 copies from campus on April 2, because the April Fools’ Day edition was considered ‘offensive’ to some students and faculty.”
