Overview
- Students and faculty marched to deliver petitions with more than 2,500 signatures urging the reinstatement of Alice Magazine and Nineteen Fifty-Six.
- Vice President for Student Life Steven Hood accepted petitions at Rose Administration Building, and students later handed one to President Peter Mohler at a campus event.
- The university halted the identity-focused publications earlier this week, pointing to a July memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi warning against unlawful proxies under federal law.
- Student Press Law Center and other advocates argue the shutdown risks unlawful viewpoint discrimination, noting the magazines were open to all contributors and readers.
- Alumni nonprofit Masthead offered to help fund or print the magazines, estimating about $7,500 to produce 1,000 copies, as the university’s proposal for a single all-student magazine draws scrutiny.