Arizona Lawmaker Goes After Campus Press

Phoenix New Times | March 22, 2005
Russell Pearce, a member of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church, put language in this year's state budget bill to eliminate funding for campus publications in Arizona because they have run stories and photographs he considers offensive.

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