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Santa rosa college paper { May 2 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5771968.htm http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5771968.htm Posted on Fri, May. 02, 2003 News in brief from California's North Coast Associated Press SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - The offices of Santa Rosa Junior College's student newspaper were locked temporarily following death threats against the editor for a piece she published attacking Israel and Jews. The piece in the biweekly Oak Leaf appeared six weeks ago. Since then, 19-year-old editor Kristinae Toomians has been the target of demands calling for her firing and an increase in faculty control over the content of the biweekly newspaper. Jewish faculty members have received abusive letters from white supremacist groups. "The goal was to get a lively discussion going," Toomians said Thursday. "I'm sorry for any pain it caused. That wasn't the point of publishing it. It was for debate purposes." The article, entitled "Is anti-Semitism ever the result of Jewish behavior?", was written by Mark McGuire, a student who's not a member of the newspaper staff. The piece included inflammatory language, took a pro-Palestinian position and used arguments popular in white supremacist literature. Outrage over the article has extended far beyond the campus and has colored the perception of the college, SRJC President Robert Agrella said. "The article should never have been printed," he said. "If anything good has come out of this, it is that we are finally focusing in on the work of the Oak Leaf, and the staff and the role of the adviser." Rich Mellott, the adjunct professor who advises the Oak Leaf staff, said he read the piece quickly and saw no reason not to run it. "It was racially charged and there were a few inflammatory things, but it wasn't libelous and it didn't incite people to violence," Mellott said. "The First Amendment isn't there to protect agreeable stories." Meanwhile, editor Toomians said the furor the article has been a learning experience. "I was really nervous at first," she said of threatening letters and fliers left on her car windshield, "but I have a lot of support here, and I'm feeling more at ease."

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