UT-Dallas students launch alternative newspaper after clash with administration

In late January, the University of Texas at Dallas removed most newspaper stands that once held its official student publication: The Mercury.

The student-produced newspaper hadn’t published a physical edition since last fall after students went on strike over the firing of its editor, Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez, who defended the organization’s coverage of pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

In the following months, Olivares Gutierrez and his colleagues launched an alternative news organization The Retrograde. The students published the first hardcopy edition Jan. 23, one day after the newsstands were removed from campus.

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