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Indiana University fires student newspaper advisor

Los Angeles Times

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October 20, 2025

Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper has flared with the elimination of the outlet's print editions and the firing of a faculty advisor who refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition.

- By Topp RICHMOND.

Indiana University fires student newspaper advisor

THE ADVISOR refused to omit news from an edition. Above, a campus entrance.

(Darron Cummings Associated Press)

Administrators may have been hoping to minimize distractions during its homecoming weekend as the school prepared to celebrate a Hoosiers football team with its highest-ever national ranking. Instead, the controversy has entangled the school in questions about censorship and student journalists’ Ist Amendment rights.

Advocates for student media, Indiana Daily Student alumni and high-profile supporters including billionaire Mark Cuban have excoriated the university for stepping on the outlet’s independence.

The Daily Student is routinely honored among the best collegiate publications in the country. It receives about $250,000 annually in subsidies from the university’s Media School to help make up for dwindling ad revenue.

Last week, the university fired the paper’s advisor, Jim Rodenbush, after he refused an order to force student editors to ensure that no news stories ran in the print edition tied to the homecoming celebrations.

“I had to make the decision that was going to allow me to live with myself,” Rodenbush said. “I don’t have any regrets whatsoever. In the current environment we're in, somebody has to stand up.”

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