By: (AP) Rutgers University's president says the student editors of an alternative campus newspaper should immediately apologize for a cartoon that mocked the Holocaust.
The full-page drawing on Wednesday's cover of the Medium weekly showed a man throwing a ball at another man sitting on an oven at a campus fair. The text read: "Knock a Jew in the oven! Three throws for one dollar! Really! No, REALLY!"
President Richard L. McCormick said the cartoon was "outrageous in its cruelty."
Ned Berke, 19, the editor who selected the cartoon, said it was clever. "It took a serious situation and made it ridiculous," he said.
Berke, who is Jewish, said he had relatives who died in the Holocaust.
"Humor is a way of honoring them and trying to get over it and to laugh," the journalism major said. "The Holocaust has been taboo for years."
Michael Stanley, the Medium's editor in chief, was out sick and did not edit the issue, and he said he probably would not have used the cartoon. "I certainly understand why people are offended by it," he said.
The Medium receives nearly $10,000 through the Rutgers College and Livingston College student government.
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