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? CORAL GABLES, Fla. ? Jewish or- ?
ganizations have protested a decision f'
by the University of Miami's student f
newspaper to publish an ad that ques- ?
tions whether gas chambers were
used at Nazi concentration camps. v
6 A petition containing 202 signatures F
was presented to The Miami Hurri- d
-cane the day before publication. Stustents,
alumni and residents of the Mi- d
ami area, which is home to many sur- t(
vivors of the Holocaust, asked the
<newspaper not to run the ad, which a
they said was "blatantly anti-Semitic, v
hurtful and offensive to all of us." o
, The quarter-page ad, purchased by ti
Bradley Smith on behalf of the Com- S
mittee for Open Debate on the Holo- n
caust, ran April 12, just days after c
^Holocaust Remembrance Day, estab- t(
lished to remember the 6 million Jews a
and others who died in the Holo- v
caust. Prayers, vigils and the continuous
reading of names of Jewish vie- d
tims marked the international occa- h
sion. d
*' Meanwhile, the Central Florida Fu- a
'ture, an off-campus publication distributed
to University of Central Flori- ti
da students, also came under fire for d
publishing a similar ad. a
- "The First Amendment is not ques- p
tionable," Miami Hurricane Editor S
Lynette Malinger said. "The paper has c
the right to run the ad. Many people,
however, have questioned our deci- p
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.? That decision was made by Julio
Fernandez, the Hurricane's business p
manager. Fernandez said it wouldn't tl
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hat. The reason we're running this is
3 educate people."
A number of University of Miami
lumni and supporters threatened to
withdraw financial support because c
f the ad. The most prominent dona- c
ion put in jeopardy was from Dr.
anford Ziff, who had planned to do- h
ate $2 million to an art museum and F
ancer center. A bomb threat also was a
slephoned to the president's office,
lthough no evidence of explosives c
/as found. p
Jason Sonid, a second-year law stu- p
lent, said he agreed the newspaper (
ias the freedom to print the ad, but
Iidn t feel The Hurricane should c
erve as a forum for Smith's ad. s
"Although offensiveness and conroversy
should not bar a newspaper's ?
lecision to choose to print, reasonble
standards of journalism should
preclude making bigotry debatable,"
onid sad. "Advertising that the Holo- M
aust is debatable, and that there are
,vo sides to this story, misinforms the u
>ublic by giving bigotry the appear- ^
nee of validity." c
Junior Steve Friedenberg's grand- y
larents lost three of their children, h
heir parents and their brothers and e
isters during the Holocaust. Frieden- F
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>erg said the ad has created a conflict
etween his emotions and intellectu1
reasoning.
UM President Edward Foote conlemned
the ad, but supported the
lewspaper's right to run it.
"As a student editor, I would not
lave run the advertisement," Foote
aid. "As president of a university,
lowever, the standard for my decision
nust be different. I concede that the
|uestion is close and that others will
lisagree with me, but at a university,
>f all places, we should err, if at all,
>n the side of freedom of thought."
UCF administrators, on the other
land, were critical of the Central
lorida Future's decision to run the
d.
"The First Amendment does not
onfer a requirement that any newstaper
publish any ad that it receives,"
JCF spokesman Dean McFall told The
)rlando Sentinel.
According to the story, 12 members
?f the Central Florida Funire staff is
ued a statement condemning the deision
to run the ad. Editor David
lauer told the Sentinel that publishng
the ad was consistent with the
lewspaper's goals of "the free flow of
deas, regardless of their popularity."
The Committee for Open Debate
in the Holocaust, located in Visalia,
>alif., has purchased similar ads in
ollege newspapers for the past few
ears. Although some newspapers
lave rejected die advertisements, oth
rs have agreed to run them, citing
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