By: (AP) Top administrators at Northern Arizona University will meet with the school's publication board next week to discuss a controversial sex column that appeared in the student newspaper.
Student writer Claire Fuller authored a Feb. 12 column for
The Lumberjack that offered a graphic "how to" guide on performing a sex act.
"I was appalled by the content of that article," said NAU Provost Liz Grobsmith, who said she would attend the March 5 meeting of the publication board. "It wasn't considered that a lot of people who read the paper are young and minors, and this is very inappropriate content."
She said the university president's office received many calls from people "deeply offended" by the article.
Rob Breeding, faculty adviser for The Lumberjack, said he was aware of the column before it was published.
"I read it quickly on deadline and had mentioned that I was not completely comfortable with it," Breeding said. "But it didn't rise to the level of obscenity, whereby I would have taken a much more aggressive role."
Guidelines set up between NAU and the independent Lumberjack say student editors make the ultimate decisions about what stories to run.
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