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Incarnate Word Returns to the TimesThe library of the University of the Incarnate Word, a private Catholic university in San Antonio, Texas, announced June 30 that it was reinstating its print subscription to the New York Times only two days after ordering its cancellation. Dean of Library Services Mendell D. Morgan Jr. said in what the June 30 San Antonio Express-News termed a “hastily called press conference” in front of the library that he did not think his original decision was inappropriate but that he regretted failing to confer beforehand with other library staff.Morgan had sent an e-mail to library staff the morning of June 28 ordering the newspaper’s cancellation because it had exposed a secret government program to monitor international banking transactions. But library staffers Jennifer Romo and Tom Rice criticized the action publicly, telling the Express-News they thought it was wrong to deny students access to the New York Times because of a personal disagreement with its coverage. At the press conference, Morgan said he had “wanted to send a message in protest” and might still cancel the subscription, adding, “I do abhor censorship and its implications.” Posted July 5, 2006. |
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