Overview
- Students and faculty marched to deliver petitions with roughly 2,500–2,700 signatures to Vice President for Student Life Steven Hood and later to President Peter Mohler.
- Administrators told magazine staff the titles were suspended because their targeted audiences could function as unlawful proxies under Attorney General Pam Bondi’s July guidance.
- The university has floated creating one campus-wide publication to replace Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six, which student editors say they do not support.
- An alumni nonprofit, Masthead, offered to help fund printing for the shuttered magazines, estimating about $7,500 per 1,000 copies.
- Student-press advocates, including the Student Press Law Center and FIRE, argue the suspensions curb protected expression and may constitute unlawful viewpoint discrimination.